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A study of the different kinds of censorship in place at the beginning of the 1970s. Topics include the protection ...
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A collection of essays on various topics: on wine and food, on writers, on how to write, danses macabres, on ...
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Censorship cases involving the following artists: Norman Mailer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita), Thomas Mann, Edmund Wilson, Virginia Woolf, Karen ...
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A history of a type of comedy known as "Boomer humour", including 'sick' or 'black' comedy and alternative comedy from ...
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An examination of stardom, advertising, promotion, fame, glamour, gossip, celebrity. Items on Barbara Cartland and the marketing of romance novels, ...
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Book by Charles Hand, who details his career of money-making activities in journalism, Music hall and theatre and radio. Also ...
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Memoir by John Frohnmayer of his tenure as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in the USA and ...
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A history of horrific stories, monsters characters and motifs throughout literary history, including books, theatre, film and art.
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Seminal semiotic study. A collection of semiological essays, post-Saussure musings on everyday phenomena including wrestling, Romans in films, the brain ...
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A story of the establishement of a National Endowment for the Arts, by the man who drafted the original legislation.
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Study of sexuality in American Culture, particularly in the Nineteenth century. Includes discussions of the influence of the puritans and ...
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Memoir by Jay Landesman of his time inas a publisher and impresario to the US counterculture in the 1950s and ...
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The development of science fiction through literature, painting, engraving, cinema, comic books. Horror, space travel, SFX, robots, cyborgs
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A history of showbusiness in America from its early theatrical contexts in vaudeville and Nickelodeons through to television, radio and ...
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A study of the effects of pornography on the viewer, with particular emphasis on the dangers of violent pornography. Comparisons ...
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A collections of essays, as well as interviews with Dennis O'Neil and Frank Miller, about the many forms of Batman ...
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Analysis of comic writing and illustrations in the Victorian humourous magazines and their portrayal of 19th century culture. Includes Pieces ...
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An abridgement of the the findings of the Commission of Obscenity and Pornography, founded in the U.S. in October 1976. ...
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