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The indecent screen : regulating television in the twenty-first century / Cynthia Chris.
LIBRA KF2840 .C48 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chris, Cynthia, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television--Law and legislation--United States.
- Television.
- Television--Law and legislation.
- Television broadcasting--Censorship.
- Television broadcasting.
- United States.
- Television broadcasting--Censorship--United States.
- Obscenity (Law)--United States.
- Obscenity (Law).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Introduction: what we talk about when we talk about television and indecency
- A brief history of indecency in media in the twentieth century
- Targeting television in the twenty-first century
- Television : more or less?
- Bleeps and other obscenities
- Who's afraid of Dick Smart? : the body politic, public access, and the punitive state
- Conclusion: the future of indecency, and why it matters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813594064
- 0813594065
- 9780813594071
- 0813594073
- OCLC:
- 1029061092
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