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Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968
Stephen Prince
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Description for Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968
Paperback. This text examines the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when filmmakers were required to have their scripts approved before they could start production. Num Pages: 320 pages, 49 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.
Stephen Prince has written the first book to examine the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when filmmakers were required to have their scripts approved before they could start production. He explains how Hollywood's filmmakers designed violence in response to the regulations of the Production Code and regional censors. Graphic violence in today's movies actually has its roots in these early films. Hollywood's filmmakers were drawn to violent scenes and "pushed the envelope" of what they could depict by manipulating the Production Code ... Read more
Stephen Prince has written the first book to examine the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when filmmakers were required to have their scripts approved before they could start production. He explains how Hollywood's filmmakers designed violence in response to the regulations of the Production Code and regional censors. Graphic violence in today's movies actually has its roots in these early films. Hollywood's filmmakers were drawn to violent scenes and "pushed the envelope" of what they could depict by manipulating the Production Code ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813532813
SKU
V9780813532813
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About Stephen Prince
STEPHEN PRINCE is a professor of communication studies at Virginia Tech. His many books include A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989, Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies, and Screening Violence (Rutgers University Press).
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