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Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934
Thomas Doherty
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Paperback. This book explores the four-year interval between 1930 and 1934, a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Doherty chronicles how the freewheeling films of an unrestricted Hollywood inform the culture of America in the 1930s. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 400 pages, 67 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APFA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640. Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934. Series: Film and Culture Series. 400 pages, 67 photos. This book explores the four-year interval between 1930 and 1934, a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Doherty chronicles how the freewheeling films of an unrestricted Hollywood inform the culture of America in the 1930s. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APFA; JFC. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 27. Weight: 748.
Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films-a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Though more unbridled, salacious, subversive, and just plain bizarre than what came afterwards, the films of the period do indeed have the look of Hollywood cinema-but the moral terrain is so off-kilter that they seem imported from a parallel universe. In a sense, Doherty avers, the films of pre-Code Hollywood are from another ... Read more
Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films-a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Though more unbridled, salacious, subversive, and just plain bizarre than what came afterwards, the films of the period do indeed have the look of Hollywood cinema-but the moral terrain is so off-kilter that they seem imported from a parallel universe. In a sense, Doherty avers, the films of pre-Code Hollywood are from another ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Series
Film and Culture Series
Condition
New
Weight
640g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231110952
SKU
V9780231110952
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About Thomas Doherty
Thomas Doherty is associate professor in the American Studies Department and chair of the Film Studies Program at Brandeis University. He is the author of Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II (Columbia, 1993) and Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s, and is associate editor of the film journal Cineaste.
Reviews for Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934
Scholarly but at ease with a Hollywood aside or period slang... Providing a nearly complete chronicle and casting unifying light on an unexplored era in film. Kirkus Reviews Pre-Code Hollywood is a delight-a text as witty and lively as the dialogue to be found in most of the pre-Code films under discussion. Filmfax Doherty keenly grasps the paradox at the ... Read more