Pre-code Hollywood: sex, immorality, and insurrection in American cinema, 1930-1934
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Main Author: Doherty, Thomas Patrick (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press ©1999
Series:Film and culture
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-410) and indexes
On the cusp of classical Hollywood cinema -- Breadlines and box office lines: Hollywood in the nadir of the Great Depression -- Preachment yarns: the politics of mere entertainment -- Dictators and Democrats: the rage for order -- Vice rewarded: the wages of cinematic sin -- Criminal codes: gangsters unbound, felons in custody -- Comic timing: cracking wise and wising up -- News on screen: the vividness of mechanical immortality -- Remote kinships; the geography of the expeditionary film -- Primitive mating rituals: the color wheel of the racial adventure film -- Nightmare pictures: the quality of gruesomeness -- Classical Hollywood cinema: the world according to Joseph J. Breen
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 430 pages)
ISBN:0231500122
9780231500128

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