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Framing And Blaming In The Culture Wars: Marketing Murder Or Selling Speech?, Clay Calvert
Framing And Blaming In The Culture Wars: Marketing Murder Or Selling Speech?, Clay Calvert
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This Article uses the Pahler legal battle as a case study to examine the current culture wars that have placed the Hollywood recording and entertainment industries in the legal crosshairs of both legislative and judicial efforts to redefine popular teen culture. The first section demonstrates how the theories at issue in Pahler mirror the tactics used in the recent war against tobacco industry advertising that also allegedly targeted minors. Next, the Article situates Pahler within the context of Congressional hearings in the fall of 2000 that focused attention on the alleged Hollywood marketing of products featuring violent content to minors. …