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Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression
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| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Robert Atkins
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Edited by Svetlana Mintcheva
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:384 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 155,Width 235 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781595580504
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| Classifications | Dewey:363.31 |
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| Audience | | General | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
The New Press
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| Imprint |
The New Press
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| Publication Date |
4 October 2006 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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.
Author Biography
Robert Atkins is an award-winning art historian, activist, and bestselling author of ArtSpeak and ArtSpoke. From 1987 to 1997, he wrote a bi-weekly column on art and politics for The Village Voice. 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.
Reviews"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"
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