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Law and the Arts
ISBN: 9780313308055
Author : Susan Tiefenbrun
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Number of pages: 272
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Author : Susan Tiefenbrun
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Number of pages: 272
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Description
Contains papers from an October 1996 seminar held at Hofstra University School of Law, by scholars in law, communication, and the humanities. Focus is on legal restraints in the media, censorship of the arts, copyright protection on the Internet, the intersection of law and literature, and artists' rights in the past and in the present. Topics include art and repression in the McCarthy era, property rights in cyberspace, and Vichy law and the Holocaust in France. A section on law and Shakespeare examines The Merchant of Venice with a retrial of Shylock. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
An interdisciplinary examination of the relationships between law and the humanities.
On the one side, chapters focus attention on legal restraints in the media, censorship of the arts, copyright protection on the Internet, and artists' rights in the past and in the present cyberspace era. On the other, the role played by law in literature and the theatre is explored, and one essay examines the architectural design of the U.S. Supreme Court and how its architect fit into political history.
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