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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9780762466771
- Book Title
- Forbidden Hollywood: the Pre-Code Era (1930-1934) : When Sin Ruled the Movies
- Book Series
- Turner Classic Movies Ser.
- Publisher
- Running Press
- Item Length
- 10.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Performing Arts, Photography, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Film / Guides & Reviews, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Censorship, Subjects & Themes / Celebrity, Film / History & Criticism
- Item Weight
- 48.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 8.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Running Press
ISBN-10
0762466774
ISBN-13
9780762466771
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038751184
Product Key Features
Book Title
Forbidden Hollywood: the Pre-Code Era (1930-1934) : When Sin Ruled the Movies
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Film / Guides & Reviews, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Censorship, Subjects & Themes / Celebrity, Film / History & Criticism
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Performing Arts, Photography, Biography & Autobiography
Book Series
Turner Classic Movies Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
48.9 Oz
Item Length
10.4 in
Item Width
8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-959092
Reviews
"informative, intelligent, and delightfully scandal-filled . . . Illuminating an integral part of movie history often seen through soft-focus and murky lighting, this clearly written survey deserves a spot both on film scholars' book shelves and movie buffs' coffee tables."-- Publishers Weekly , https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780762466771
Synopsis
Filled with rare images and untold stories from filmmakers, exhibitors, and moviegoers, Forbidden Hollywood is the ultimate guide to a gloriously entertaining era when a lax code of censorship let sin rule the movies. Forbidden Hollywood is a history of "pre-Code" like none other you will eavesdrop on production conferences, read nervous telegrams from executives to censors, and hear Americans argue about "immoral" movies. You will see decisions artfully wrought, so as to fool some of the people long enough to get films into theaters. You will read what theater managers thought of such craftiness, and hear from fans as they applauded creativity or condemned crassness. You will see how these films caused a grass-roots movement to gain control of Hollywood-and why they were "forbidden" for fifty years. The book spotlights the twenty-two films that led to the strict new Code of 1934, including Red-Headed Woman , Call Her Savage , and She Done Him Wrong . You'll see Paul Muni shoot a path to power in the original Scarface ; Barbara Stanwyck climb the corporate ladder on her own terms in Baby Face ; and misfits seek revenge in Freaks . More than 200 newly restored (and some never-before-published) photographs illustrate pivotal moments in the careers of Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, and Greta Garbo; and the pre-Code stardom of Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, and Mae West. This is the definitive portrait of an unforgettable era in filmmaking., It's classic Hollywood -- uncensored . Filled with rare images and untold stories from producers, censors, stars, exhibitors, and the movie-going public, Forbidden Hollywood is the ultimate guide to a gloriously entertaining and strikingly modern time in early American films: the Pre-Code era. "Pre-Code" -- a catchy misnomer for the days before a strict code of censorship purified the content of Hollywood films -- encompasses movies made from 1930 through 1934, when Hollywood censors were lax or absent. But there was already a Production Code in place, the result of a collaboration between Catholic bishops, Protestant politicians, and Jewish-American film producers with the aim of preventing federal censorship. The Code prohibited violent, vulgar, or sexual content in films. It was well intentioned, but no one abided by it, especially after the Great Depression began to keep filmgoers away from theaters. The easiest way to lure them back was with sex and violence. For the next four years -- before a grassroots movement caused the Code to be fully instated -- sinful cinema ruled the screen. Forbidden Hollywood is a history of Pre-Code like none other because it tells the story of the era by taking the reader there. Through the text you will eavesdrop on conferences between producers and writers, read nervous telegrams from executives to censors, and listen to conversations between censors and directors, where artistic decisions meant shifts in power -- and money -- when one third of a nation was desperate. You will see how these decisions were so artfully wrought as to fool some of the people just long enough to get films into theaters. You will read what theater managers thought of such craftiness. You will read letters from a variety of fans as they, depending on community standards, applauded creativity or condemned crassness.The book spotlights twenty-three films which author and film historian Mark A. Vieira identifies as the definitive list of movies that brought on strict enforcement of the Code in 1934, including a loincloth-clad Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan and His Mate ; Barbara Stanwyck climbing the corporate ladder on her own terms in Baby Face ; a group of misfits out for revenge in Freaks ; and Paul Muni leading the crime world in the original Scarface . More than 200 newly restored (and some never-before-published) photographs throughout illustrate pivotal moments in the careers of such stars as Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich, and Jean Harlow, completing a definitive portrait of an unforgettable era in filmmaking.
LC Classification Number
PN1993.5.U65
Copyright Date
2019
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