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Contested culture : the image, the voice, and the law / by Jane M. Gaines.

LIBRA KF4290.A7 G35 1991
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gaines, Jane, 1946-
Series:
Cultural studies of the United States
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Performing arts--Law and legislation--United States--Cases.
Performing arts.
Entertainers--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--Cases.
Entertainers.
Intellectual property--United States--Cases.
Intellectual property.
Entertainers--Legal status, laws, etc.
Performing arts--Law and legislation.
United States.
Popular culture--United States.
Popular culture.
Socialism and culture.
Physical Description:
xvii, 340 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1991]
Summary:
This provocative book examines the phenomenon of images as property, specifically mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture. By looking at legal texts - such as judicial opinions and stars' contracts - as cultural artifacts in their own right, and by offering a poststructualist analysis of these texts, Jane Gaines explores not only the legal but the cultural status of these icons. She discusses such legal questions as individual authorship of an image versus its corporate ownership and the right to privacy versus the right to publicity.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0807819778
0807843261
OCLC:
23253635

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