Pre-Code Hollywood

Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934

Autor: Thomas Doherty

Limbă:

Legare: Carte broșată

Editura: Columbia University Press

Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern

Expediem în 9-15 zile

113.20 lei

Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Thomas Doherty

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1999

Pagini

400

EAN

9780231110952

ISBN

0231110952

Enbook ID

04557365

Editura

Columbia University Press

Greutate

730

Dimensiuni

159 x 230 x 27

Descriere completă

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.

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Pre-Code Hollywood

Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934

Informații despre carte

Descriere completă

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și