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Title Censoring culture : contemporary threats to free expression / edited by Robert Atkins and Svetlana Mintcheva.

Imprint New York : New Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  700.103 C332c 2006    ---  Available
Description xxiv, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note "Published in conjunction with the National Coalition Against Censorship."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction: Censorship in camouflage / Svetlana Mintcheva and Robert Atkins -- Money talks: the economic foundations of censorship / Robert Atkins -- Private philanthropy and the arts: does anybody want an artist in the house? / Ruby Lerner -- Private censorship, corporate power / Lawrence Soley -- American music challenges the copyright tradition / Siva Vaidhyanathan -- Revisiting free exchange: the art world after the culture wars / Hans Haacke in conversation with Robert Atkins and Svetlana Mintcheva -- On edge: alternative spaces today / Robert Atkins -- Market censorship / Andre Schiffrin -- Unfair trade practices in bookselling / Wallace Kuralt -- Military-industrial complex is dead! Long live the military-media-industrial complex! / Dee Dee Halleck -- High wire[d] act: balancing the political and technological / Robert Atkins -- Creativity in real space / Lawrence Lessig -- Hacking culture / Douglas Thomas -- How the IP guerrillas won: (R)TMark, Adbusters, Negativland, and the "bullying back" of creative freedom and social commentary / Giselle Fahimian -- Metaphysics of networks / Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker -- Power, politics, new technology, and memory in the age of the internet / Antoni Muntadas in conversation with Svetlana Mintcheva -- Protection or politics? the use and abuse of children / Svetlana Mintcheva -- Media effects / Marjorie Heins.
Taboos, trust and titillation: teens talk about censorship / a roundtable discussion with high school and college students moderated by Stephanie Elizondo Griest and Svetlana Mintcheva -- Violent video game players mysteriously avoid killing selves, others / Seth Killian -- Censorship: the sexual media and the ambivalence of knowing / Judith Levine -- "Not a pretty picture": four photographers tell their personal stories about child "pornography" and censorship / Marian Rubin ... [et al.] -- Invasion of the kiddyfiddlers / Mick Wilson -- When words and images cause pain: the price of free speech / Svetlana Mintcheva -- Pitfalls in fighting "nigger": perils of deception, censoriousness, and excessive anger / Randall Kennedy -- Past is prologue, but is parody and pastiche progress? / Michael Harris and Lowery Stokes Sims in conversation with Karen C.C. Dalton -- Beyond good and evil / Norman Kleeblatt and Joanna Lindenbaum in conversation with Robert Atkins and Svetlana Mintcheva, regarding the exhibition Mirroring evil: Nazi imagery/recent art -- My memorial to Patrick Tillman / John Leanos -- New meaning of bias / Diane Ravitch -- Censor within / Svetlana Mintcheva -- To discern, to discriminate, and to decide: censorship and institutions / Tom Finkelpearl and Thomas Sokolowski in conversation with Svetlana Mintcheva and Robert Atkins -- Taking offense / J.M. Coetzee -- Ubiquitous censor: artists and writers on self-censorship / Leeza Ahmadi ... [et al.] -- Psychoanalyst's perspective on artists and censorship / Janice Lieberman.
Subject Freedom and art.
Arts and society.
Freedom of expression.
Mass media -- Censorship.
Politics and culture.
Added Author Atkins, Robert.
Mintcheva, Svetlana.
National Coalition against Censorship (U.S.)
ISBN 1595580506 (pbk.)
9781595580504 (pbk.)
1595580972 (hbk.)
9781595580979 (hbk.)
Standard No. 9781595580979
9781595580504
YDXCP 2270545
YDXCP 2270547

 
    
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