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Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
By Nesteroff, Kliph
- ISBN
- 9781419760983
- Publisher
- Abrams
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Reviewed on November 1, 2023 | Arts & Humanities
Nesteroff (We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy) shows that heightened sensitivities to offensive material are long-standing phenomena in the U.S. and the UK. Contending that past attempts at censorship can inform the present, he concentrates on controversies from the 19th-century minstrel shows up to the social media age. He extensively utilizes letters to the editors a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
