Evading the issue : Hollywood and the social problem film /

Tino Balio, in his book The American Film Industry, said that the Production Code meant that American films could not deal with political or social issues 'in an honest and truthful fashion'. This incisive essay tests out the legitimacy of Balio's claims, using The Lost Weekend (direc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Field, Amanda J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gosport [England] : Chaplin Books, 2015.
Colección:Short Takes Film Studies.
Temas:
Motion picture plays, American > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States.
Scénarios de cinéma américains > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Motion picture plays, American
Motion pictures > Social aspects
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History.
California > Los Angeles > Hollywood
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Tino Balio, in his book The American Film Industry, said that the Production Code meant that American films could not deal with political or social issues 'in an honest and truthful fashion'. This incisive essay tests out the legitimacy of Balio's claims, using The Lost Weekend (directed by Billy Wilder, 1945) as an example of the Hollywood 'problem film'. Rather than treating the film as being an entity with a single, unchanging meaning, it is put into its historical and social context, in ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (30 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781909183780
1909183784

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