CONSTRUCTING ‘DECENCY’.
This article examines the production of normative subjectivity and the construction of ‘appropriate’ and exportable knowledge through cultural policy during the culture wars of the 1980s–1990s in the USA. During this time, the performing and visual arts, and mass media were increasingly seen as the...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 92 - 115 |
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