Book chapter
Privacy and the right to one's image: A cultural and legal history
Injury and Injustice: The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress, pp.202-228
Cambridge University Press
2018
DOI: 10.1017/9781108332934.010
Abstract
Summary
In the past hundred years, in increasing numbers, Americans have turned to the law to help them defend their reputations and public images. The twentieth century saw the creation of what Barbas describes as laws of public image, and the phenomenon of personal image litigation. This chapter explores the origins of these laws of image, tracing them to the rise of an image-conscious self, the modal self of our mass-mediated, mass consumer society. The laws of image are an expression of a people who have become fascinated, even obsessed, with their personal images—who have come to see their images as coextensive with their identities, so that an injury to one’s image constitutes an injury to one’s self.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Privacy and the right to one's image: A cultural and legal history
- Creators
- Samantha Barbas - University at Buffalo School of Law, United States
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Injury and Injustice: The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress, pp.202-228
- DOI
- 10.1017/9781108332934.010
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 27
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2018
- Academic Unit
- History; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9985214107502771
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