From the introduction:
This article offers a broad
overview of the development of the modern “image torts” and the phenomenon of
personal image litigation. An intertwined history of the law, culture, and the
self, it explores how the law became a stage for, and participant in, the modern preoccupation
with personal image, and how tort law’s
models of personhood and identity in turn transformed understandings of the
self. Through legal claims for libel, invasions of privacy, and other assaults
to the image, the law was brought, both practically and imaginatively, into
popular fantasies and struggles over personal identity and
self-presentation.
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