PISSING IN THE SNOW:
A CULTURAL APPROACH TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT
A review essay inspired by James B. Twitchell's Carnival Culture: The
Trashing of Taste in America.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. 306 PP. $24.95.
Ronald K.L. Collins
Visiting Associate Professor, George Washington University, National Law Center;
cofounder, Center for the Study of Commercialism, Washington, D.C.
David M. Skover
Professor, University of Puget Sound, School of Law.
Copyright 1993 by Ronald K.L. Collins and David M. Skover
This is the latest installment of a much longer work in progress, The Death of Discourse. For other installments, see Ronald K.L. Collins & David M. Skover, Commerce & Communication, and Ronald K.L. Collins & David M. Skover, The First Amendment in an Age of Paratroopers, appearing at Tex. L. Rev. 1087 (1990). See also Ronald K.L. Collins & David M. Skover, Paratexts, appearing at 44 Stan. L. Rev.. 509 (1992).
Originally published in the Stanford Law Review, February 1993, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 783 - 806.
We are thankful to a number of our friends and colleagues for
their thoughtful, and sometimes critical, written comments:
Janet Ainsworth, James Bond, Sid De Long, John Mitchell, and Pierre Schlag.
Although we are aware of Vance Randolph's PISSING IN THE SNOW AND OTHER OZARK FOLKTALES (1976), the title of our essay was not inspired by that work. See text accompanying Note 6.
