商品簡介
Semonche (history, U. of North Carolina) explores the ways that concerns about sex have led to censorship in various areas of American popular culture. Included is both government censorship and that of industries, groups, organizations, and private individuals who have sought to prevent the communication entirely, to modify it, or to restrict its availability or accessibility. Following an introductory overview, individual chapters trace the history of censorship involving books, pictorial art, movies, music and dance, and the electronic media of radio, television, and the Internet. Semonche finds that while each story is different from the others because censorship has come in varying ways and at different stages in the creative process, the concerns that led to censorship and the resulting battles are strikingly similar. Academic but accessible to general readers interested in freedom of expression and moral concerns in the U.S. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
John E. Semonche is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. An authority on American constitutional and legal history, he is the author of numerous articles and books, including Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court and Religion and Constitutional Government in the United States.
