Sex, Sin and Blasphemy: a Guide to America's Censorship Wars

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Research Abstract
Sex, Sin and Blasphemy: a Guide to America's Censorship Wars

The author looks at the censorship scene from the halls of government to residential neighborhoods, where the funding and sale of sexually explicit paintings, photographs, recordings and videotapes are under attack. Pro-censorship groups include not only religious fundamentalists and their supporters, but also anti-pornography feminists and others who blame the popular and fine arts for corroding the moral fiber of the nation's social fabric. The author points to the dangers to society of restricting artistic freedom and persuasively defends the National Endowment for the Arts - which was founded to advance creativity not conformity.

CONTENTS
1. Obscenity: The First Amendment's second-class citizen.
2. Movies: censoring the dream factory.
3. Censorship by suggestion: the problem of government threats.
4. The devil's music: the oddity of warning labels on art.
5. Getting naked: censorship of nudity in art, theater, and dance.
6. The taxpayers' money: the question of government funding.
7. The dreaded P word: Pornography.
8. Blasphemy, subversiveness, other sins.

Conclusion: scapegoating speech.
Afterward: what you can do.
Notes.
A few suggestions for further reading [bibliography].
Index.

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Book
Heins, Marjorie
1-56584-062-3 (h); 1-56584-048-9 (p)
210 p.
December, 1992
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