Print media and public reaction to the controversy over NEA funding for Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment" exhibit

Journalism and Mass Communication Quaterly

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 278-291

  McLeod, Douglas M ^b   Mackenzie, Jill A ^a  

^a Hagley Museum and Library   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0039502504     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769909807500204     Document Type: Article

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