Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (714 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231110952 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Vieira's Sin in Soft Focus. It was a world that was often amoral and anarchic--an industry that allowed James Cagney and Paul Muni wild orgies of violence, openly flaunted the sexuality of Marlene Dietrich and Mae West, gave King Kong permission to crush cars and eat people, and allowed Tod Browning to make Freaks, one of the ghastliest, most sensationalistic, and greatest American movies. This was a Hollywood of loose dames, hot whoopee, and coked-up killers who'd do anything for a pot of jack. --Raphael Shargel. Film fans reveling in the debauchery of Hollywood's naughtiest era will also want to see Mark A. Who says the world of classic Hollywood moviemaking was never risqué? We tend to think of black-and-white movies as representing a sanitized world, where crime never paid, ladies of the evening had hearts of gold, and married couples slept in separate beds. But in fact, censorship in American cinema didn't begin in earnest until 1934,
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 cinemabut 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. 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 filmsa time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. 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 unrewardedin sum, pretty much the raw stuff of Ame
wrbtu said Exciting subject matter, dull reading. This is a good book, but it doesn't capture the excitement of its subject matter. All kinds of wild & crazy things were happening in pre-code (19Exciting subject matter, dull reading This is a good book, but it doesn't capture the excitement of its subject matter. All kinds of wild & crazy things were happening in pre-code (1930-193Exciting subject matter, dull reading wrbtu This is a good book, but it doesn't capture the excitement of its subject matter. All kinds of wild & crazy things were happening in pre-code (1930-1934) Hollywood movies (extramarital affairs, prostitution, robbery, violence, etc.), & they happened for the most part without moral judgment on the parts of the m. ) Hollywood movies (extramarital affairs, prostitution, robbery, violence, etc.), & they happened for the most part without moral judgment on the parts of the m. 0-19Exciting subject matter, dull reading This is a good book, but it doesn't capture the excitement of its subject matter. All kinds of wild & crazy things were happening in pre-code (1930-193Exciting subject matter, dull reading wrbtu This is a good book, but it doesn't capture the excitement of its subject matter. All kinds of wild & crazy things were happening in pre-code (1930-1934) Hollywood movies (extramarital affairs, prostitution, robbery, violence, etc.), & they happened for the most part without moral judgment on the parts of the m. ) Hollywood movies (extramarital affairs, prostitution, robbery, violence, etc.), & they happened for the most part without moral judgment on the parts of the m. Exciting subject matter, dull reading wrbtu This is a good book, but it doesn't capture the excitement of its subject matter. All kinds of wild & crazy things were happening in pre-code (1930-1934) Hollywood movies (extramarital affairs, prostitution, robbery, violence, etc.), & they happened for the most part without moral judgment on the parts of the m. ) Hollywood movies (extramarital affairs, prostitution, robbery, violence, etc.), & they happened for the most part without moral judgment on the parts of the m. RE-HASH OF EVERYTHING I thought this book was a complete waste of time. Didn't like the writing, incompetent research, etc. Even the cover is lousy!It is nothing more than a re-hash of what has been written before, by much better, competent, well-researched and informative authors.Readers: Mark Vieira's "Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code . A thorough picture of an interesting transitionary time in film Jacob Shemkovitz As far as scholarly texts go, I found these essays very entertaining, due to the lively-by-definition subject matter and the engaged perspective of Mr. Doherty.Sections of the text focus on different genres of the period, touching on areas of Pre-Code history with an equal hand. In doing so, the author gives as