Free Expression and Censorship in America: An Encyclopedia

by Herbert N. Foerstel

Despite the end of the Cold War, America's national security apparatus for controlling information has remained in place. However, sex and secularism are emerging as the major targets of censorship. Federal decency standards have been imposed on art, the broadcast media, and the Internet. Virtually every major political issue of the 1990s (abortion, campaign finance, violence on TV, homosexuality, indecency on the Internet) has First Amendment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313292310
• ISBN13: 9780313292316
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"