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050 00 $aPN1995.62$b.V54 1999
082 00 $a363.31/0973/09043$221
100 1 $aVieira, Mark.
245 10 $aSin in soft focus :$bpre-code Hollywood /$cMark A. Vieira.
260 $aNew York :$bHarry N. Abrams,$c1999.
300 $a240 pages :$billustrations ;$c32 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 230-232) and index.
505 00 $gPt. I.$t1930.$tPictures That Talk (Rudely).$tThe Production Code.$tA Cycle of Sophistication --$gPt. II.$t1931.$tBullets and Box Office.$tIgnoble Experiments.$tCensoring Horror.$tTropical Tramps --$gPt. III.$t1932.$tArt and Propriety.$tBlood in the Gutter.$tThe Fox Film Corporation.$tThe Warners Grit.$tThe M-G-M Gloss.$tSeeing "Red"$tThe Paramount Glow.$t"Under the Naked Moon" --$gPt. IV.$t1933.$tEnter Mae West.$tSex in Soft Focus.$t"Black Moonlight"$t"Three Cheers for Sin!" --$gPt. V.$t1934-35.$tBreen's New Broom.$tThe Final Blowout.$tThe Production Code Administration.$tIt Ain't No Sin.$tThe Devil Is a Movie.$tEpilogue.
520 1 $a"In the spring of 1934, Hollywood faced what the Los Angeles Times called "the most serious crisis of its history." The film capital was under siege by censorship advocates who launched a boycott, demanding that the film industry enforce the Production Code it had adopted in 1930.
520 8 $aFor nearly five years, defiant producers had cited artistic freedom and flouted the Code, which forbade vulgarity, profanity, nudity, excessive violence, illegal drugs, adultery, "sex perversion," "white slavery," racial mingling, "lustful kissing," and suggestive dancing. In July 1934, the controversial films were outlawed. Today they are called "pre-Code.""--BOOK JACKET. "Sin in Soft Focus showcases a scintillating era in film history and tells how filmmakers sidestepped the Code."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"Mark A. Vieira draws on extensive research, interviews, and correspondence in the Production Code Administration files to tell the engaging, suspenseful, and often humorous story of the struggle between Hollywood and its reformers, weaving history, politics, and film into a full-blooded narrative. Illustrated with 275 film stills, many of them rare, the book captures the stunning visual artistry of the era."--BOOK JACKET.
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650 0 $aSex in motion pictures.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120622
650 0 $aSensationalism in motion pictures.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120039
650 4 $aSex in motion pictures.
650 4 $aSensationalism in motion pictures.
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