Leonard J. Leff, Jerold L. Simmons

The Dame in the Kimono (eBook, ePUB)

Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"This excellent, lively study examines the 'raucous debate' sparked by the Code over the morals and ideals of American movies." - Publishers Weekly The new edition of this seminal work takes the story of the Production Code and motion picture censorship into the present, including the creation of the PG-13 and NC-17 ratings in the 1990s. Starting in the early 1930s, the Production Code Director, Joe Breen, and his successor, Geoff Shurlock, understood that American motion pictures needed enough rope-enough sex, and violence, and tang-to lasso an audience, and not enough to strangle the industry. To explore the history and implementation of the Motion Picture Production Code, this book uses 11 movies: Dead End, Gone With the Wind, The Outlaw, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Bicycle Thief, Detective Story, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Moon Is Blue, The French Line, Lolita, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The authors combine a lively style with provocative insights and a wealth of anecdotes to show how the code helped shape American screen content for nearly 50 years. "A readable, intimate account of the rise to near-tyrannical power, and the fall to well-deserved ignominy, of the old Production Code Administration." - Atlantic Monthly "A valuable insight into our own innocence and naiveté." - The New York Times Book Review "The triumph of Leff and Simmons's fine work is that they have reminded us of how fatuous and inimical a code of conduct can be: how tempting it is as a theoretical answer, and how intrinsically flawed it is as a working solution." - The Times of London

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813143460
• Artikelnr.: 39134909

Autorenporträt

Leonard J. Leff, professor of English at Oklahoma State University, is the author of Hitchcock and Selznick.