Censoring Culture
Contemporary Threats to Free Expression
Published on 4. October 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-59558-050-4 (ISBN)
Description
An anthology of current cutting-edge thinking on the complex issues of censorship and freedom of expression in the arts, journalism, and new media, with contributions from legal scholars, art historians cultural theorists, librarians and psychoanalysts.
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"We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship", we call it "concern for commercial viability." " - DAVID MAMET"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59558-050-4 (9781595580504)
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Persons
Robert Atkins is an award-winning art historian, activist, and bestselling author of ArtSpeak and ArtSpoke. From 1987 to 1997, he wrote a biweekly column on art and politics for the Village Voice. A co-founder of Visual Aids, he lives in Palm Springs and San Francisco.
Svetlana Mintcheva is the director of the Arts Program of the National Coalition Against Censorship, an alliance of fifty nonprofit organizations devoted to freedom of expression in the arts. She lives in New York City.
Svetlana Mintcheva is the director of the Arts Program of the National Coalition Against Censorship, an alliance of fifty nonprofit organizations devoted to freedom of expression in the arts. She lives in New York City.