Kevin W Saunders: 4 books
Violence As Obscenity
Limiting the Media’s First Amendment Protection
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1996
This timely and accessible volume takes a fresh approach to a question of increasing public concern: whether or not the federal government should regulate media violence. In Violence as Obscenity, Kevin W. Saunders boldly calls into question the assumption that violent material is protected by the...
Degradation
What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Throughout history obscenity has not really been about sex but about degradation. Sexual depictions have been suppressed when they were seen as lowering the status of humans, furthering our distance from the gods or God and moving us toward the animals. In the current era, when we recognize ourselves...
by Kevin W. Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
The First Amendment is vital to our political system, our cultural institutions, and our routine social interactions with others. In this provocative book, Kevin Saunders asserts that freedom of expression can be very harmful to our children, making it more likely that they will be the perpetrators...
Free Expression and Democracy
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Free Expression and Democracy takes on the assumption that limits on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a weakening of democracy. That hypothesis is tested by an examination of issues involving expression and their treatment in countries included on The Economist's list of fully...