Violence As Obscenity: Limiting the Media's First Amendment Protection

by Kevin W. Saunders

This timely and accessible volume takes a fresh approach to a question of increasing public concern: whether or not the federal government should regulate media violence. In Violence as Obscenity, Kevin W. Saunders boldly calls into question the assumption that violent material is protected by the First Amendment. Citing a recognized exception to the First Amendment that allows for the regulation of obscene material, he seeks to expand the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822317672
• ISBN13: 9780822317678
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.2"