Pre-Code Hollywood
Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930--1934
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Product details:
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date of Publication 5 October 1999
- ISBN 9780231110945
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 152x226 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 67 photos 0
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Short description:
This book explores the four-year interval between 1930 and 1934, a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Doherty chronicles how the freewheeling films of an unrestricted Hollywood inform the culture of America in the 1930s.
MoreLong description:
"Scholarly but at ease with a Hollywood aside or period slang.... Providing a nearly complete chronicle and casting unifying light on an unexplored era in film." -- Kirkus Reviews
MoreTable of Contents:
1. On the Cusp of Classical Hollywood Cinema
Patrolling the Diegesis
Pre-Code Contexts
2. Breadlines and Box Office Lines: Hollywood in the Nadir of the Great Depression
The Lost Millions
A Synchronized Industry
"Mike Fright"
3. Preachment Yarns: The Politics of Mere Entertainment
Telegraphing Ideology
Class Distinctions
Professional Malfeasance
4. Dictators and Democrats: The Rage for Order
Hankering for Supermen
"The Barrymore of the Capital": The Newsreel Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A New Deal in the Last Reel
The Mad Dog of Europe
5. Vice Rewarded: The Wages of Cinematic Sin
Packaging Vice
Models of Immorality
Figurative Literalness
Queer Flashes
"Women Love Dirt"
Working Girls
6. Criminal Codes: Gangsters Unbound, Felons in Custody
Rushing Toward Death: The Gangster Film
Men Behind Bars: The Prison Film
7. Comic Timing: Cracking Wise and Wising Up
Commentators on the Action
Story, Screenplay, and All Dialogue by Mae West
Newspaper Patter
The Blue Eagle and Duck Soup (1933)
8. News on Screen: The Vividness of Mechanical Immortality
Library Stock
The Newsreel Ethos
Covering Up the Great Depression
9. Remote Kinships: The Geography of the Expeditionary Film
Points on the Compass
Faking It: Phoney Expeditions and Real Deaths
The Dark Continent
10. Primitive Mating Rituals: The Color Wheel of the Racial Adventure Film
"He's White": Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932) and Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Red Skin, Red Lips: Massacre (1934)
East Mates West
"The Ethiopian Trade"
Nerve and Brains: Paul Robeson and The Emperor Jones (1933)
Beauty and the Beast: King Kong (1933)
11. Nightmare Pictures: The Quality of Gruesomeness
Rugged Individualism: Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), and Their Progeny
The Lower Orders Rise Up: Island of Lost Souls (1933) and Freaks (1932)
12. Classical Hollywood Cinema: The World According to Joseph I. Breen
"The Storm of '34"
Hollywood Under the Code
Post-Code Hollywood Cinema
