Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Robert Atkins
Edited by Svetlana Mintcheva
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:384
Dimensions(mm): Height 155,Width 235
ISBN/Barcode 9781595580504
ClassificationsDewey:363.31
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher The New Press
Imprint The New Press
Publication Date 4 October 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

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"