Pornography in America: a Reference Handbook |
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| Author:
| Slade, Joseph W. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-280-72497-8 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2000 |
| Publisher: | ABC-CLIO, LLC
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $66.00 |
Book Description:
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Pornography is an $8 billion industry in the United States. "Pornography in America" offers an overview of this subject, treating pornographic genres as cultural resources, illuminating controversies and framing the debate. Here you'll read that Mae West's play "She Done Him Wrong" inspired the founding of the Catholic Legion of Decency, that in 1997 the film version of Gunter Grass's "The Tin Drum" was seized in Oklahoma as child pornography, and much more.; Biographical sketches...
More DescriptionPornography is an $8 billion industry in the United States. "Pornography in America" offers an overview of this subject, treating pornographic genres as cultural resources, illuminating controversies and framing the debate. Here you'll read that Mae West's play "She Done Him Wrong" inspired the founding of the Catholic Legion of Decency, that in 1997 the film version of Gunter Grass's "The Tin Drum" was seized in Oklahoma as child pornography, and much more.; Biographical sketches focus on noted figures in the controversy, such as Anthony Comstock, Lenny Bruce, Catharine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin, Larry Flynt and others.