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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 9780813594101 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Chris, Cynthia, 1961- Indecent screen : regulating television in the twenty-first century. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, c2018 ISBN 9780813594088

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Content: The Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among U.S.-based media advocates, television professionals, the Federal Communications Commission, and TV audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on the decency debates during an approximately twenty-year period since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which in many ways restructured the media environment. Simultaneously, ever increasing channel capacity, new forms of distribution, and time-shifting (in the form of streaming and on-demand viewing options) radically changed how, when, and what we watch. But instead of these innovations quelling concerns that TV networks were too often transmitting indecent material that was accessible to children, complaints about indecency skyrocketed soon after the turn of the century. Chris demonstrates that these clashes are significant battles over the role of family, the role of government, and the value of free speech in our lives, arguing that an uncensored media is so imperative to the public good that we can, and must, endure the occasional indecent screen.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Chronology -- , List of Abbreviations -- , Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Television and Indecency -- , 1. A Brief History of Indecency in Media in the Twentieth Century -- , 2. Targeting Television in the Twenty-First Century -- , 3. Television: More or Less? -- , 4. Bleeps and Other Obscenities -- , 5. Who’s Afraid of Dick Smart? The Body Politic, Public Access, and the Punitive State -- , Conclusion: The Future of Indecency and Why It Matters -- , Acknowledgments -- , Notes -- , Index -- , About the Author , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.36019/9780813594101

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Format: 1 online resource (255 pages)

ISBN: 9780813594101

Content: The Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among U.S.-based media advocates, the Federal Communications Commission, the TV industry, and audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on decency debates since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which have called into question the roles of family and government, and the value of free speech.

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Chris, Cynthia The Indecent Screen : Regulating Television in the Twenty-First Century New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,c2019 ISBN 9780813594088

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 0-8135-9407-3 , 0-8135-9410-3

Content: The Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among U.S.-based media advocates, television professionals, the Federal Communications Commission, and TV audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on the decency debates during an approximately twenty-year period since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which in many ways restructured the media environment. Simultaneously, ever increasing channel capacity, new forms of distribution, and time-shifting (in the form of streaming and on-demand viewing options) radically changed how, when, and what we watch. But instead of these innovations quelling concerns that TV networks were too often transmitting indecent material that was accessible to children, complaints about indecency skyrocketed soon after the turn of the century. Chris demonstrates that these clashes are significant battles over the role of family, the role of government, and the value of free speech in our lives, arguing that an uncensored media is so imperative to the public good that we can, and must, endure the occasional indecent screen.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Chronology -- , List of Abbreviations -- , Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Television and Indecency -- , 1. A Brief History of Indecency in Media in the Twentieth Century -- , 2. Targeting Television in the Twenty-First Century -- , 3. Television: More or Less? -- , 4. Bleeps and Other Obscenities -- , 5. Who's Afraid of Dick Smart? The Body Politic, Public Access, and the Punitive State -- , Conclusion: The Future of Indecency and Why It Matters -- , Acknowledgments -- , Notes -- , Index -- , About the Author , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8135-9406-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8135-9408-1

Language: English

DOI: 10.36019/9780813594101