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Author Heins, Marjorie.

Title Sex, sin, and blasphemy : a guide to America's censorship wars / Marjorie Heins.

Imprint New York : New Press, c1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  363.31 H365s  1998    ---  Available
Edition [Rev. ed.]
Description xxxii, 211 p. ; 21 cm.
Note "Introduction to the revised edition" p. xiii
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Censorship and artistic freedom -- "Obscenity" : the First amendment's second-class citizen -- Movies : censoring the dream factory -- Censorship by suggestion : the problem of government threats -- "The Devil's music" : the oddity of warning labels on art -- Getting naked : censorship of nudity in art, theater, and dance -- "The taxpayers' money" : the question of government funding -- The dreaded "P" word : pornography -- Blasphemy, subversiveness, and other sins -- Conclusion : scapegoating speech -- Afterword : What you can do.
Subject Censorship.
Sex in art.
ISBN 1565840488 (pbk.)
1565840623

 
    
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