censorship

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music censorship in America
2001
Chronicles the history of music censorship in the United States, looking at the efforts of individual citizens, groups, and the government to suppress controversial lyrics and cover art.

Media meltdown

a graphic guide adventure
2009
Pema, Bounce and Jagroop must face off against a greedy developer as they fight for control of their airways.

Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier and the school newspaper censorship debate

debating Supreme Court decisions
2006
Describes the 1988 U.S. Supreme Court case between the Hazelwood, Missouri school district and the students of the high school who claimed their First Amendment right to free speech had been violated when several articles of their newspaper were censored by the principal.

Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

censorship in school newspapers
1998
Examines the 1988 Supreme Court case which dealt with the question of whether the censorship of student newspapers by school administrators violated the students' first amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

Memoirs of a bookbat

1994
Fourteen-year-old Harper, an avid reader of fantasy who must hide her books from her fundamentalist parents, comes to realize that their public promotion of censorship threatens her freedom to make her own choices.

Censorship

a threat to reading, learning, and thinking
1994

Controversial cinema

the films that outraged America
2008
Discusses how controversial topics--such as censorship, sex, gender, sexuality, violence, crime, race, ethnicity, and religion--have been depicted in American films and provides in-depth examination of four motion pictures which have portrayed the issues, including "The Silence of the Lambs," "Natural Born Killer," "Do the Right Thing," and "The Passion of the Christ.".

True stories of censorship battles in America's libraries

2012
A collection of stories from librarians who faced censorship challenges in their libraries.

Policing pop

2003
Contains thirteen essays in which the authors examine attempts by governments, religious and cultural groups, and others to regulate, restrict, and repress popular music, and strategies used to resist such pressures.

Defusing censorship

the librarian's guide to handling censorship conflicts
1983
Provides practical advice, guidelines, and tools for managing censorship conflicts.

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