Contested Culture

This provocative book examines the phenomenon of images as property, specifically mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture. By looking at legal texts - such as judicial opinions and stars' contracts - as cultural artifacts in their own right, and by offering a poststructualist analysis of these texts, Jane Gaines explores not only the legal but the cultural status of these icons. She discusses such legal questions as individual authorship of an image versus its corporate ownership and the right to privacy versus the right to publicity.

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
On Likeness the Law	p. 1
Photography "Surprises" the Law the Portrait of Oscar Wider	p. 42
Dead Ringer Jacqueline Onassis and K-Alike	p. 84
"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" Nancy Sinatra and the Goodyear Tire Sound-Alike	p. 105
Reading Star Contracts	p. 143
Dracula and the Right of Publicity	p. 175
Superman Television, and the Protective Strength of the Trademark	p. 208
Conclusion Oppositional Culture and Contraband Merchandise	p. 228
Notes	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 297
Index	p. 327
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