Freedom of Speech: Reflections in Art and Popular Culture

This book examines how freedom of speech is reflected in pop culture by looking at numerous examples of films websites television shows and songs that have touched on―and impacted―this issue.It is easy to overlook the importance of freedom of speech in our modern world where it often seems anything goes. In actuality freedom of speech issues are still highly relevant in the 21st century even if our cultural and social contexts now allow many forms of expression that were unacceptable in previous eras. This book focuses on how freedom of speech is reflected in pop culture by looking at the films websites television shows and songs that have touched on―and impacted―this issue. It examines specific examples of freedom of speech issues within everything from print media to music theater photography film television sports video games and social media and demonstrates that pop culture sometimes contributes to the expansion of freedom of speech.Covers freedom of speech issues in popular culture in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as the present dayExamines everything from banned books to comic book censorship music theater photography film television video games and social mediaEnables readers to better appreciate how freedom of speech and expression is a subtext in most aspects of daily life