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The face that launched a thousand lawsuits The American women who forged a right to privacy

By: Publication details: London Yale University Press 2016Description: 306P ix HBISBN:
  • 9780300214222
DDC classification:
  • 342.878 LAK
Contents:
Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Setting the Scene: Proliferating Pictures and the Advent of Photography and Cinema 19 2 "Has a Beautiful Girl the Right to Her Own Face?" Privacy, Propriety, and Property 43 3 Medical Men and Peeping Toms: Spectacles of Monstrosity and the Camera's Corporeal Violations 89 4 Privacy, the Celluloid City, and the Cinematic Eye 117 5 Privacy for Profit and a Right of Publicity 150 6 Hollywood Heroes and Shameful Hookers: Privacy Moves West 182 Conclusion 223 Notes 239 Bibliography 275 Index 295 Show More
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Mass Media - Moral & Ethical Aspects

Mass Media & Women - Privacy Right Of

Portraits - Law & Legislation - U S A

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1 Setting the Scene: Proliferating Pictures and the Advent of Photography and Cinema 19

2 "Has a Beautiful Girl the Right to Her Own Face?" Privacy, Propriety, and Property 43

3 Medical Men and Peeping Toms: Spectacles of Monstrosity and the Camera's Corporeal Violations 89

4 Privacy, the Celluloid City, and the Cinematic Eye 117

5 Privacy for Profit and a Right of Publicity 150

6 Hollywood Heroes and Shameful Hookers: Privacy Moves West 182

Conclusion 223

Notes 239

Bibliography 275

Index 295

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