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Better left unsaid : Victorian novels, Hays Code films, and the benefits of censorship /

This study defendins censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally levelled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife - the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film - it reveals the varied ways in which censorship, for all i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gilbert, Nora (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2013]
Colección:Cultural lives of law.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the joy of censorship
  • The sounds of silence : W.M. Thackeray and Preston Sturges
  • For sophisticated eyes only : Jane Austen and George Cukor
  • Beyond censorship : Charles Dickens and Frank Capra
  • The thrill of the fight : Charlotte Brontë and Elia Kazan
  • Postscript : Oscar Wilde and Mae West.