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Hollywood's censor : Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Administration

Title
Hollywood's censor : Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Administration / Thomas Doherty.
Author
Doherty, Thomas Patrick.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.

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Description
x, 427 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-407) and indexes.
Contents
Prologue: Hollywood, 1954 -- The Victorian Irishman -- Bluenoses against the screen -- Hollywood shot to pieces -- The Breen office -- Decoding classical Hollywood cinema -- Confessional -- Intermission at RKO -- At war with the Breen office -- In his sacerdotalism -- "Our semitic brethren" -- Social problems, existential dilemmas, and outsized anatomies -- Invasion of the art films -- Amending the Ten Commandments -- Not the Breen office -- Final cut: Joseph I. Breen and the auteur theory.
Call Number
MFL 08-3059
ISBN
  • 9780231143585 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231143583 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007026146
OCLC
147986887
Author
Doherty, Thomas Patrick.
Title
Hollywood's censor : Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Administration / Thomas Doherty.
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-407) and indexes.
Research Call Number
MFL 08-3059
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