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Hollywood's censor : Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Administration /

From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. Though little known outside the ranks of the studio system, this former journalist and public relations agent was one...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doherty, Thomas Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Hollywood, 1954
  • The Victorian Irishman
  • Bluenoses against the screen
  • Hollywood shot to pieces
  • The Breen office
  • Decoding classical Hollywood cinema
  • Confessional
  • Intermission at RKO
  • At war with the Breen office
  • In his sacerdotalism
  • "Our semitic brethren"
  • Social problems, existential dilemmas, and outsized anatomies
  • Invasion of the art films
  • Amending the Ten Commandments
  • Not the Breen office
  • Final cut: Joseph I. Breen and the auteur theory.