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Sundance documentary collectionNiehoff, Leonard M.
Summary: "Traces the development and evolution of the free speech doctrine in the Supreme Court and explores how the Court, with varying levels of success, has applied that doctrinal framework to 'hard cases' and current controversies, such as those involving hate speech, speech on the internet, speech on campus, and campaign finance regulation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 NIEPalfrey, John G. (John Gorham)
Summary: "Safe spaces, trigger warnings, microagressions, the disinvitation of speakers, demands to rename campus landmarks -- debate over these issues began in lecture halls and on college quads but ended up on op-ed pages in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, on cable news, and on social media. Some of these critiques had merit, but others took a series of cheap shots at 'crybullies' who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370 PALRosenberg, Ian
Summary: ""The Fight for Free Speech" explores ten cases that define First Amendment freedoms"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 ROSTimpf, Kat
Summary: In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Timpf shows why much of the way we talk about sensitive subjects is wrong. We push ourselves into unnecessary conflicts when we should feel like we're all in this together. When someone says "you can't joke about that," what they really mean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 TIMAbrams, Floyd
Summary: "A lively and controversial overview by the nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in America... The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored and least understood addendum to the US Constitutionthe First Amendment. Floyd Abrams, a noted lawyer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 ABRTushnet, Mark V.
Summary: "The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock's paintings, Arnold Schöenberg's music, and Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" are "unquestionably shielded" by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive constitutional coverage under an amendment protecting "the freedom of speech," even though none involves what we typically think of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 TUSPost, Robert
Summary: "A leading American legal scholar offers a surprising account of the incompleteness of prevailing theories of freedom of speech. Robert C. Post shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the "marketplace of ideas" and which holds that "everyone is entitled to an opinion," is inadequate to create and preserve the expert knowledge that is necessary for a modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 POSSummary: The surreal and shocking world of the controversial cult leader Reverend Fred Phelps and his hate group. Includes interviews and rare Phelps footage and allows viewers to reexamine the quintessentially American right of free speech.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FALSummary: A compilation of three short films about the current state of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2005
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Summary: Examines how free speech in the United States has been corrupted by the politically powerful and how the contemporary landscape of social media and social polarization have eroded the safeguards built into the Constitution to protect speech.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 COSMitchell, Greg
Contents: 2003, January. on the war path -- My 9/11 story and Iraq's -- February. Ellsberg : have the media learned lessons of Vietnam? -- Powell conquers the media -- Schanberg hits the ground rules running -- March. Eleven questions we wish they'd asked -- Rummy meets Mcnamara -- April. Moyers : beginning of the end or just the beginning? -- May. Back in the daze of 'mission accomplished' -- July....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 MITSummary: Follow the Dixie chicks, the top selling female band of all-time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the groups lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003. Follow the lives and careers of the Dixie Chicks over a period of three years during which they were under political attack and received death threats, while continuing to live their lives, have children, and make country music. At a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2007
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SHUMoskowitz, P. E.
Summary: "A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack the meaning of free speech--and how we can reclaim it." -- From Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.443 MOSAbrams, Floyd.
Summary: An eminent First Amendment advocate discusses his best-known cases in light of the current threat to America's freedom of speech. From the Patriot Act to Janet Jackson's Super Bowl show, recent events have embroiled America and its media in ongoing battles to maintain this country's freedom of expression. In this book, an attorney on the front lines of America's fight for uncensored expression...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin 2005