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Censorship: The Knot That Binds Power and Knowledge (Communication and Society) Book
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Designed for students of communication who require a critical interpretation of meaning censorship and the media in the contemporary world this study analyzes political and social theories in an effort to challenge traditional ideas about the control of words and the freedom of the media.
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Product Description
Most Americans tend to view censorship as a repressive aspect of other societies or historical eras, one that touches on our lives only in relation to national security or certain cold war considerations. In this provocative history of censorship, Sue Curry Jansen challenges conventional thought with a bold new view: that censorship, an embodiment of the relationship between power and knowledge, is as much a feature of liberal, market societies as it is of totalitarianisms. Building on an analytic tradition laid out by such thinkers as Marcuse and Foucault, Jansen addresses the notion of "market censorship" and shows how the marketplace has become an arena for liberal "power-knowledge." She also analyzes Marx's critique of bourgeois censorship, examines censorship at various levels of Soviet society, and takes an incisive look at economic censorship within our own capitalist nation. The book concludes with a discussion on strategies of resistance to this powerful, and indeed universal, form of social control.
- 0195069064
- 9780195069068
- Sue Curry Jansen
- 14 November 1991
- OUP USA
- Paperback (Book)
- 288
- New edition
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