Behaviour Beyond the Text and the Morality Clause in Twenty-First-Century Publishing

Chiara Bullen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

75 Seiten

2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-57317-7 (ISBN)

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A morality clause allows contracting parties to terminate a contractual agreement with those who exhibit behaviour deemed unacceptable. Established in 1920s Hollywood, these contractual clauses are now found in twenty-first-century publishing agreements. This Element investigates the presence of the morality clause in the UK book publishing industry in relation to an increased focus on author behaviour beyond the text in the twenty-first-century, examining the way it operates within the publishing field in the context of behaviour perceived to be 'problematic'. It asserts the clause is perceived to be needed due to the emergence of social media and twenty-first-century social contexts combining to impact the author-reader relationship which, in turn, leads to author behaviour acting as a paratextual threshold to their work. This Element presents an analysis of the morality clause in practice, concluding the clause has the potential to further the power imbalance between author and publisher.

1. Introduction; 2. Behaviour Beyond the Text and The Author-Reader Relationship; 3. The Morality Clause in Practice; 4. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
ISBN-10	1-009-57317-9 / 1009573179
ISBN-13	978-1-009-57317-7 / 9781009573177
Zustand	Neuware