Acting Up Free Speech, Pragmatism, and American Performance in the Late 20th Century.
Nunns examines how free speech became a centerpiece of American identity during the 20th century and how ideas of freedom of expression came to a head during the?Culture Wars? in the 1980s and?90s. He explores four case histories: performance artist Karen Finley and her court case revolving around p...
| Основен автор: | Nunns, Stephen. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
El Paso :
LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC,
2011.
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| Серия: |
Recht und Gesellschaft.
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Acting Up : Free Speech, Pragmatism, and American Performance in the Late 20th Century. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction; Part One; Chapter One:Re-Thinking the Roots: Origins of the Culture Wars; Chapter Two:A Problem with Theory: The Paradox of Free Speech; Chapter Three:Pragmatisms; Chapter Four:To Work is to Function: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Pragmatism, and Free Speech; Part Two; Chapter Five:The Constitutionalization of the American Avant-Garde:Karen Finley and the NEA; Chapter Six: Curiouser and Curiouser: I Am Curious (Yellow) and the American Courts; Chapter Seven: Is Charlotte Burning? Pragmatism and Politics in a Southern City.
- Chapter Eight:If That Ain't Country:Race and the Music of David Allan CoeConclusion; Bibliography; Index.