The Unacceptable [electronic resource] /
Potts, J.editor.
Scannell, J.editor.
Confronting the issue of the unacceptable as a social category, this collection of international essays provides distinctive perspectives on the theme of what is deemed socially acceptable. The book reveals the ways category of the unacceptable reflects sexual, racial and political fault-lines of a society.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: What Is the Unacceptable?; Part I: The Socially Unacceptable; 1 Power and the Unacceptable; 2 'Schooling Scandals!': Exploring the Necessity of Cultural Disgust; 3 Presumed Innocent: Picturing Childhood; 4 The Sombrero Comes Out of the Closet: Gay Marriage in Mexico City and a Nation's Struggle for Identity; 5 The Drug Cultures in France and the Netherlands (1960s-1980s): Banning or Regulating the 'Unacceptable'; 6 'When the Smoke Clears': Confronting Smoking Policy; Part II: Representing the Unacceptable
7 The Monstrous-Familial: Representations of the Unacceptable Family8 Unacceptability and Prosaic Life in Breaking Bad; 9 Sade's Constrained Libertinage: The Problem of Disgust; 10 Freedom of Expression has Limitations: Censorship of Performance in the USA; 11 Why Saying 'No' to Life Is Unacceptable; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Confronting the issue of the unacceptable as a social category, this collection of international essays provides distinctive perspectives on the theme of what is deemed socially acceptable. The book reveals the ways category of the unacceptable reflects sexual, racial and political fault-lines of a society.
Communication.
Sociology.
Intellectual life-History.
Mass media.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Media Research.
Intellectual Studies.
Sociology, general.
Media Studies.
Media Sociology.
Regional and Cultural Studies.