Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934 Paperback - 1999
by Doherty, Thomas
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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 universe. They lay bare what Hollywood under the Production Code attempted to cover up and push offscreen: sexual liaisons unsanctified by the laws of God or man, marriage ridiculed and redefined, ethnic lines crossed and racial barriers ignored, economic injustice exposed and political corruption assumed, vice unpunished and virtue unrewarded -- in sum, pretty much the raw stuff of American culture, unvarnished and unveiled.
No other book has yet sought to interpret the films and film-related meanings of the pre-Code era -- what defined the period, why it ended, and what its relationship was to the country as a whole during the darkest years of the Great Depression ... and afterward.Details
- Title Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934
- Author Doherty, Thomas
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd
- Pages 430
- Language ENG
- Publisher COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, New York
- Date 1999-08
- ISBN 9780231110952
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 07/15/1999, Page 1099
- Library Journal, 07/01/1999, Page 92
- New York Times, 12/05/1999, Page 96
- Publishers Weekly, 07/12/1999, Page 81
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