Decency Wars The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture

Name: Decency Wars The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture
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ISBN: 9781591024279

ISBN-10: 1591024277

ISBN-13: 9781591024279

Edition: 2006

Authors: Frederick S. Lane, Frederick S. Lane

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Examines America's changing attitudes toward the politics of decency and spells out strategies for combating the rising influence of the puritanical Religious Right.

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 8/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 367
Size: 6.36" wide x 9.29" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Few Words on Terminology


Prologue: Slaves to the Rhythm: The NFL, CBS, and MTV Reap as They Sow



A Nip in the Air: The Chilling Effects of the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show



From Henry VIII to the FCC: Tracing the Origins of American Efforts to Legislate Decency



Religious Boycotts and Corporate Self-Censorship: Private Efforts to Cleanse American Culture



"A Soldier in God's Army": Anita Bryant, Jerry Falwell, and the Rise of Evangelical Politics



Losing the Decency Wars, One Living Room at a Time: A Decade of Deregulation, Cable, Phones, and Computers



The Post-Reagan Hangover: A Four-Year Rearguard Action against Cultural Indecency



The Oral Majority: On Talk Radio, the Issue of Decency Gets Personal



Now Is the Year of Our Dissed Content: Why the FCC Reenlisted in the War on Indecency



Ask Not for Whom the Wedding Bells Toll: A Love That Now Dares Speak Its Name



At Play in the Laboratories of the Lord: Sacrificing Scientific Truth on the Altar of Ideology


Conclusion: A Thousand Points of Enlightenment: Strategies to Restore the True Meaning of Decency in American Society


Notes


Index