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The Dame in the Kimono
Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code
by Leonard J. Leff and Jerold L. Simmons
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Book Presentation:
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.
About the authors:
Leonard J. Leff, professor of English at Oklahoma State University, is the author of Hitchcock and Selznick. Jerold L. Simmons, professor of history at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, is the author of The Campaign to Abolish the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Press Reviews:
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. -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. -Times of London
See the publisher website: University Press of Kentucky
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