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New York. 1999. Columbia University Press. 3rd Printing. Very Good. No Dustjacket. 0231110944. 400 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Film America Pre-Code Morality History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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…
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Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930--1934 Hardcover - 1999
by Thomas Doherty
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- Title Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930--1934
- Author Thomas Doherty
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 430
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 1999-08
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780231110945 / 0231110944
- Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.26 x 1.12 in (23.67 x 15.90 x 2.84 cm)
- Reading level 1440
- Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures - Censorship - United States, Sex in motion pictures
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99011956
- Dewey Decimal Code 302.234
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