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Pre-code Hollywood : sex, immorality, and insurrection in American cinema, 1930-1934

Title: Pre-code Hollywood : sex, immorality, and insurrection in American cinema, 1930-1934 / Thomas Doherty.
Author: Doherty, Thomas Patrick.
Publication: New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.

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Description

xiii, 430 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Film and culture

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-410) and indexes.

Contents

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 the 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 I. Breen.

Call Number

MFL 99-12053

ISBN

0231110944 (cl. : alk. paper)
0231110952 (pa. : alk. paper)

LCCN

99011956

OCLC

40660169

Author

Doherty, Thomas Patrick.

Title

Pre-code Hollywood : sex, immorality, and insurrection in American cinema, 1930-1934 / Thomas Doherty.

Imprint

New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.

Series

Film and culture

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-410) and indexes.

Research Call Number

MFL 99-12053

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