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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in liteature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to read the material themselves.
The "Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of
critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume
presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected
sources range from essays in the history of criticism to journalism
and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material
such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from
later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the
fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an
introduction to the writer's published works, a selected
bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The
collected "Critical Heritage" set is available as a set of 68
volumes and the series is also available in mini- sets selected by
period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
Of the seventy-three cases in the fourth edition of Paul Siegel’s
Cases in Communication Law, twenty-eight are new to this edition.
Among these are such Supreme Court decisions as Air Wisconsin
Airlines Corporation v. Hoeper, which gives those who follow the
post-911 instruction, “if you see something, say something!”
some special protection from libel suits; Brown v. Entertainment
Merchants Association, which explicitly gives maximal First
Amendment protection to violent video games, even when sold to
minors; U.S. v. Alvarez, which prohibits prosecution for falsely
claiming one has been awarded a Medal of Honor; and Snyder v.
Phelps, which gave notorious minister Fred Phelps the right to
mount demonstrations with rather nasty messages at funerals. Siegel
has used several criteria to select cases for inclusion in this and
previous editions. He admits unabashedly that one of those criteria
is the cultural significance, familiarity, and even celebrity of
the controversies or the litigants. Just to cite a few examples,
this edition includes cases involving such litigants as Michael
Moore, Penn & Teller, Joan Rivers, and Madonna, as well as TV
programs like Family Guy, CSI, Law and Order, and featured movies
include Disturbia, American Gangster, American Beauty, and The
Hangover, Part II.
Communication Law in America is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow
overview of the complicated ways in which U.S. law determines who
may say what to (and about) whom. It covers the usual content-
libel, invasion of privacy, copyright and trademark, access to
government information, advertising, electronic media- all the
while giving readers a sense of how and why this country has come
to weigh freedom of speech above competing freedoms far more often
than in other Western democracies. This fourth edition of the
well-received text boasts over 300 new citations, including
discussion of a dozen U. S. Supreme Court decisions handed down
since the previous edition. The nearly 200 still photos and over 80
videos on the author-maintained website - generally not images of
litigants but of the actual artifacts (TV and movie scenes,
advertisements, news reports) that led to the law suits- have
always represented dramatic added value to students and professors
alike. The new edition includes 35 new visual elements, including
20 videos. The text also offers a new section on how the First
Amendment applies to special populations, including students,
government employees in general, and the military in particular.
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