Censoring Hollywood

Sex and Violence in Film and on the Cutting Room Floor

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de Aubrey Malone

Type

Studies

Sujet

Studio > Hollywood

Mots Clés

censorship, Hays code, Hollywood, morality

Année d'édition

2011

Editeur

McFarland & Co

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 224 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7864-6465-4

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Description de l'ouvrage:
Censorship has been an ongoing issue from the early days of filmmaking. One hundred years of film censorship, encompassing the entire 20th century, are chronicled in this work. The freewheeling nature of films in the early decades was profoundly affected by Prohibition, the Depression and the formation of the Legion of Decency–culminating in a new age of restrictiveness in the movies.

Such powerful arbiters of public taste as Will H. Hays of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America and Joseph Breen of the Production Code Association fomented an era whereby films with contentious material were severely censored or even condemned. This held sway until rebellious filmmakers like Otto Preminger challenged the system in the 1950s, eventually resulting in the abandonment of the old regime in favor of the contemporary “G” through “NC-17″ ratings system.

À propos de l'auteur :
Author and critic Aubrey Malone has written many books on the cinema. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.

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