Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930â "1934 by Doherty, Thomas
Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930â "1934 by Doherty, Thomas

Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930â "1934

Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the...
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Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930â "1934 by Doherty, Thomas

Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930â "1934

$54.34
Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930â "1934 by Doherty, Thomas

Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930â "1934

$54.34
Author: Thomas Doherty
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.



Author: Thomas Doherty
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 08/27/1999
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.09w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780231110952


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/12/1999 pg. 81
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/1999 pg. 1099
Library Journal 07/01/1999 pg. 92
New York Times 11/28/1999 pg. 16
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 96

About the Author
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 Cinéaste.
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