Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law

Cultural Studies of the United States

by Jane M. Gaines

Jane M. Gaines examines the phenomenon of images as property, focusing on the legal staus of mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture. Bridging the fields of critical legal studies and cultural studies, she analyzes copyright, trademark, and intellectual property law, asking how the law constructs works of authorship and who owns the country's cultural heritage.

360 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1991