Examines the history of censorship in the media, discusses seven prominent cases of media censorship, and presents a chronological history of twenty-eight media-censorship court cases since 1812.
In World War II, the civilian Office of Censorship supervised a huge and surprisingly successful programme of news management: the voluntary self-censorship of the American press. This work examines that censorship programme, analyzing the reasons for its success, using archival…
"Censorship: A World Encyclopedia presents a comprehensive view of censorship, from Ancient Egypt to those modern societies that claim to have abolished the practice. For each country in the world, the history of censorship is described and placed in context, and the media censo…
"Censorship: A World Encyclopedia presents a comprehensive view of censorship, from Ancient Egypt to those modern societies that claim to have abolished the practice. For each country in the world, the history of censorship is described and placed in context, and the media censo…
Censorship and literature in fascist Italy
"Examining the pervasiveness of censorship in Fascist Italy, from the entrenchment of Mussolini's role as 'prime censor' to the suppression of works by female writers, this is a look, at the vulnerability of culture under a dictatorship."--Jacket.
Censorship and literature in fascist Italy
"Examining the pervasiveness of censorship in Fascist Italy, from the entrenchment of Mussolini's role as 'prime censor' to the suppression of works by female writers, this is a look, at the vulnerability of culture under a dictatorship."--Jacket
Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe. this book includes the development of Nazi censorship policies, the Library of the Vilna ghetto, the use of fine printing by the Dutch underground, and the experience of read…
"Mark Cohen's re-definition of censorship as essentially a practice of judgment moves beyond the traditional Enlightenment view of censorship as an oppressive government practice and the consequent liberal condemnation of censorship on principle. Since judgment is enmeshed in th…
"In [this book], Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that fi…
"In [this book], Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that fi…