The Indecent Screen : : Regulating Television in the Twenty-First Century /

The Indecent Screen : : Regulating Television in the Twenty-First Century / / Cynthia Chris.

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The Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among U.S.-based media advocates, television professionals, the Federal Communications Commission, and TV audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on the decency debates during an approximately twenty-year period since the Telecommu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2019
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Chris, Cynthia,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.) :; 15 B&W
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chronology
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Television and Indecency
  • 1. A Brief History of Indecency in Media in the Twentieth Century
  • 2. Targeting Television in the Twenty-First Century
  • 3. Television: More or Less?
  • 4. Bleeps and Other Obscenities
  • 5. Who's Afraid of Dick Smart? The Body Politic, Public Access, and the Punitive State
  • Conclusion: The Future of Indecency and Why It Matters
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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