Robert Corn-Revere

The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9781107129948
• ISBN-10: 110712994X
• Artikelnr.: 62023589

Autorenporträt

Robert Corn-Revere is a leading First Amendment lawyer whose career has spanned over thirty-five years. He has argued cases in the Supreme Court, defeated the FCC in the Super Bowl 'wardrobe malfunction' case, and obtained a posthumous pardon for the late comedian Lenny Bruce from the Governor of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The censor's dilemma
2. Anthony Comstock: professional anti-vice crusader
3. Comstock's legacy: a dilemma is born
4. The Comstock playbook
5. Seduction of the innocent: the comic book menace
6. Ya got trouble: censorship and popular music
7. The vast wasteland
8. New age Comstockery: the indecency wars
9. The anti-free speech movement
10. Freedom of speech and the spirit of liberty.