Hollywood's Censor
Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 2015
440 pages
978-0-231-51284-8 (ISBN)
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Thomas Doherty is professor of American studies at Brandeis University. He serves on the editorial board of Cineaste and is the author of Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture; Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934; Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II; and Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s.
Content
Opening Credits
Prologue: Hollywood, 1954
1. The Victorian Irishman
2. Bluenoses Against the Screen
3. Hollywood Shot to Pieces
4. The Breen Office
5. Decoding Classical Hollywood Cinema
6. Confessional
7. Intermission at RKO
8. At War with the Breen Office
9. In His Sacerdotalism
10. "Our Semitic Brethren"
11. Social Problems, Existential Dilemmas, and Outsized Anatomies
12. Invasion of the Art Films
13. Amending the Ten Commandments
14. Not the Breen Office
15. Final Cut: Joseph I. Breen and the Auteur Theory
Appendix: The Production Code
Notes
Film Index
Index
Prologue: Hollywood, 1954
1. The Victorian Irishman
2. Bluenoses Against the Screen
3. Hollywood Shot to Pieces
4. The Breen Office
5. Decoding Classical Hollywood Cinema
6. Confessional
7. Intermission at RKO
8. At War with the Breen Office
9. In His Sacerdotalism
10. "Our Semitic Brethren"
11. Social Problems, Existential Dilemmas, and Outsized Anatomies
12. Invasion of the Art Films
13. Amending the Ten Commandments
14. Not the Breen Office
15. Final Cut: Joseph I. Breen and the Auteur Theory
Appendix: The Production Code
Notes
Film Index
Index
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