Pre-code Hollywood : sex, immorality, and insurrection in American cinema, 1930-1934 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

On the cusp of classical Hollywood cinema

Breadlines and box office lines: Hollywood in the nadir of the Great Depression

Preachment yarns: the politics of mere entertainment

Dictators and Democrats: the rage for order

Vice rewarded: the wages of cinematic sin

Criminal codes: gangsters unbound, felons in custody

Comic timing: cracking wise and wising up

News on screen: the vividness of mechanical immortality

Remote kinships; the geography of the expeditionary film

Primitive mating rituals: the color wheel of the racial adventure film

Nightmare pictures: the quality of gruesomeness

Classical Hollywood cinema: the world according to Joseph J. Breen