Pre-Code Hollywood
Pre-Code Hollywood by Thomas Doherty
English | August 15, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0231110944 | 400 pages | PDF | 5,8 MB
English | August 15, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0231110944 | 400 pages | PDF | 5,8 MB
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, when Will Hays and Joseph Breen began enforcing the legendary Hollywood production code. In this revelatory book, Thomas Doherty looks at sound movies of 1930-34–what is now known as the "pre-code" era.
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