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Title: Hollywood Censored : Morality Codes, Catholics, and the Movies by Gregory D. Black ISBN: 0-521-56592-8 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 26 January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Summary: Romanism and culture: A "B" Movie
Comment: What enabled one viciously anti-semetic Catholic, Joe Breen, to control an entire industry? This delightful scholarly tome gives a partial answer: the industry wanted to have its product go to the largest possible audience, despite local and national boards of censors. By censoring themselves, they obtained a pugnacious Irish Catholic who could browbeat bishops, state legislators, and others. The only price was to meet this one person's private moral code: to make movies that would not offend 12 year old girls in convent schools. This history of the Production Code Authority, and how it was exercised is par excellence. What gave Breen his power was a confluence of Catholic bankers, vertical integration from studio through distributor to exhibitor, coupled with mandatory booking at the exhibition level. The weakness for the studios was Catholic threats of boycotts at the midwestern exhibitor level where the studios were weakest. This book should be coupled with the author's "Catholic Crusade Against the Movies" and the pictoral "Sin in Soft Focus." An interesting footnote is the KKK response to the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency. Does the revival of Catholic horror of blasphemy, in the so-called Catholic League of the 1990s pose a similar threat? Probably not, since the Fr. Lord's Legion of Decency was focused on Jewish studio heads, and the Catholic League objects to Catholic movie makers and Catholic television writers. The PCA did more than condemn the use of angora sweaters in the finished movies, it forbade any movie that was social in comment or controversial in its politics. Somehow it even managed to offend William Randolph Hearst, a honor usually reserved to Orson Wells and "Rosebud."
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Title: The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code by Leonard J. Leff, Jerold L. Simmons ISBN: 0813190118 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Pre-Code Hollywood by Thomas Doherty ISBN: 0231110952 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Movie Censorship and American Culture by Francis G. Couvares, Charles Musser ISBN: 1560986697 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era (Depth of Field Series) by Matthew Bernstein ISBN: 0813527074 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Complicated Women : Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood by Mick LaSalle ISBN: 0312284314 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 19 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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