Hollywood S Pre Code Horrors 1931 1934
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Hollywood S Pre Code Horrors 1931 1934
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Author : Raymond Valinoti Jr.
language : en
Publisher: BearManor Media
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Hollywood S Pre Code Horrors 1931 1934 written by Raymond Valinoti Jr. and has been published by BearManor Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Performing Arts categories.
In the first few years of the Great Depression, before the Production Code was rigidly enforced in 1934, Hollywood took advantage of its laxity, producing racy and violent films that titillated filmgoers and outraged reformers. The American horror genre blossomed during this time and the studios exploited its lurid possibilities. The results were both shocking and controversial. Some of these films remain unsettling today. Hollywood's Pre-Code Horrors 1931-1934 appraises all of these films, from Dracula (1931), which spearheaded the American horror market, to The Black Cat (1934), the last chiller released before the strengthening of the Code. Each film is thoroughly analyzed, not only in its insinuations and/or portrayals of sex and violence, but in the context of the era in which it was made and the reactions of critics and filmgoers during this time. Raymond Valinoti, Jr. is a resident of Berkeley Heights, NJ. He has a Master's in Library Science from Rutgers University and is a freelance researcher. He is also the author of Another Nice Mess: The Laurel and Hardy Story. His articles on films have been published in the magazines Midnight Marquee and Films of the Golden Age. "Fans of classic horror films are in for an important and enlightening history lesson. The book recalls a time when Hollywood came under scrutiny by highly-vocal moral crusaders. But before cracking down on them with their strict new Production Code, cinematic horror thrived during a relatively permissive period in the early 1930s, with author Valinoti profiling 19 of these films, from the biggest hits (King Kong, Frankenstein) to financial flops that are now considered classics (Island of Lost Souls, Freaks). We get a brief history of each film’s production and marketing, as well as their assorted pre- and post-production censorship problems, with lots of favorites popping up along the way, including Mystery of the Wax Museum, The Black Cat, and Murders in the Zoo." - Shock Cinema
Hollywoods Pre Code Horrors 19
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Author : Raymond Valinoti Jr
language : en
Publisher: BearManor Media
Release Date : 2017-01-04
Hollywoods Pre Code Horrors 19 written by Raymond Valinoti Jr and has been published by BearManor Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-04 with Performing Arts categories.
In the first few years of the Great Depression, before the Production Code was rigidly enforced in 1934, Hollywood took advantage of its laxity, producing racy and violent films that titillated filmgoers and outraged reformers. The American horror genre blossomed during this time and the studios exploited its lurid possibilities. The results were both shocking and controversial. Some of these films remain unsettling today. Hollywood's Pre-Code Horrors 1931-1934 appraises all of these films, from Dracula (1931), which spearheaded the American horror market, to The Black Cat (1934), the last chiller released before the strengthening of the Code. Each film is thoroughly analyzed, not only in its insinuations and/or portrayals of sex and violence, but in the context of the era in which it was made and the reactions of critics and filmgoers during this time. Raymond Valinoti, Jr. is a resident of Berkeley Heights, NJ. He has a Master's in Library Science from Rutgers University and is a freelance researcher. He is also the author of Another Nice Mess: The Laurel and Hardy Story. His articles on films have been published in the magazines Midnight Marquee and Films of the Golden Age.
Hollywoods Pre Code Horrors 19
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Author : Jr. Raymond Valinoti
language : en
Publisher: BearManor Media
Release Date : 2017-01-06
Hollywoods Pre Code Horrors 19 written by Jr. Raymond Valinoti and has been published by BearManor Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-06 with Performing Arts categories.
Hollywood's Pre-Code Horrors 1931-1934 appraises all horror films from Dracula (1931), which spearheaded the American horror market, to The Black Cat (1934), the last chiller released before the strengthening of the Code.
2019 Winter Catalog Bearmanor Media
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Author : BearManor Media
language : en
Publisher: BearMarnor Media
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2019 Winter Catalog Bearmanor Media written by BearManor Media and has been published by BearMarnor Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
The NEW 2019 Winter Catalog from BearManor Media - showcasing new titles like: Son of Dracula, Alice (TV series), Robert Urich biography, Rondo Hatton biography, Gracie Fields biography, The MASH Trivia Book, Spike Milligan scripts, Michael Sloan (creator of The Equalizer) autobiography, Dawn Wells, Bela Lugosi, and many more. Over 1000 entertainment titles to choose from inside.
Pre Code Hollywood
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Author : Thomas Doherty
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1999-08-27
Pre Code Hollywood written by Thomas Doherty and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-27 with Performing Arts categories.
Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films—a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Though more unbridled, salacious, subversive, and just plain bizarre than what came afterwards, the films of the period do indeed have the look of Hollywood cinema—but the moral terrain is so off-kilter that they seem imported from a parallel universe. In a sense, Doherty avers, the films of pre-Code Hollywood are from another universe. They lay bare what Hollywood under the Production Code attempted to cover up and push offscreen: sexual liaisons unsanctified by the laws of God or man, marriage ridiculed and redefined, ethnic lines crossed and racial barriers ignored, economic injustice exposed and political corruption assumed, vice unpunished and virtue unrewarded—in sum, pretty much the raw stuff of American culture, unvarnished and unveiled. No other book has yet sought to interpret the films and film-related meanings of the pre-Code era—what defined the period, why it ended, and what its relationship was to the country as a whole during the darkest years of the Great Depression... and afterward.
Forbidden Hollywood The Pre Code Era 1930 1934 Turner Classic Movies
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Author : Mark A. Vieira
language : en
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Release Date : 2019-04-02
Forbidden Hollywood The Pre Code Era 1930 1934 Turner Classic Movies written by Mark A. Vieira and has been published by Running Press Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Performing Arts categories.
Filled with rare images and untold stories from filmmakers, exhibitors, and moviegoers, Forbidden Hollywood is the ultimate guide to a gloriously entertaining era when a lax code of censorship let sin rule the movies. Forbidden Hollywood is a history of "pre-Code" like none otherA name=_Hlk518256457: you will eavesdrop on production conferences, read nervous telegrams from executives to censors, and hear Americans argue about "immoral" movies. /aYou will see decisions artfully wrought, so as to fool some of the people long enough to get films into theaters. You will read what theater managers thought of such craftiness, and hear from fans as they applauded creativity or condemned crassness. You will see how these films caused a grass-roots movement to gain control of Hollywood-and why they were "forbidden" for fifty years. The book spotlights the twenty-two films that led to the strict new Code of 1934, including Red-Headed Woman, Call Her Savage, and She Done Him Wrong. You'll see Paul Muni shoot a path to power in the original Scarface; Barbara Stanwyck climb the corporate ladder on her own terms in Baby Face; and misfits seek revenge in Freaks. More than 200 newly restored (and some never-before-published) photographs illustrate pivotal moments in the careers of Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, and Greta Garbo; and the pre-Code stardom of Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, and Mae West. This is the definitive portrait of an unforgettable era in filmmaking.
The Turn To Gruesomeness In American Horror Films 1931 1936
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Author : Jon Towlson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-09-16
The Turn To Gruesomeness In American Horror Films 1931 1936 written by Jon Towlson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-16 with Performing Arts categories.
Critics have traditionally characterized classic horror by its use of shadow and suggestion. Yet the graphic nature of early 1930s films only came to light in the home video/DVD era. Along with gangster movies and “sex pictures,” horror films drew audiences during the Great Depression with sensational content. Exploiting a loophole in the Hays Code, which made no provision for on-screen “gruesomeness,” studios produced remarkably explicit films that were recut when the Code was more rigidly enforced from 1934. This led to a modern misperception that classic horror was intended to be safe and reassuring to audiences. The author examines the 1931 to 1936 “happy ending” horror in relation to industry practices and censorship. Early works like Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) and The Raven (1935) may be more akin to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Hostel (2005) than many critics believe.
Fear Itself
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Author : Melvin E. Matthews, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Fear Itself written by Melvin E. Matthews, Jr. and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This book demonstrates how horror films of the 1930s and 1940s reflected specific events and personalities of the era, most notably the Great Depression and World War II. Beginning with Dracula and Frankenstein (1931), it relates the many ways that horror films and society intersected: Franklin D. Roosevelt's skepticism toward conventional wisdom and the public's distrust of experts was mirrored in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Murders in the Rue Morgue; the freaks in Tod Browning's 1932 film of the same name revolted against the powerful people of the circus, much like the Bonus Army protested the sufferings of the Depression; King Kong's rampage on New York personified the anti-New York sentiment in the nation at large; Lon Chaney Jr.'s Wolf Man symbolized the experience of his creator, Curt Siodmak, as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany.
Gro E Werke Des Films 2
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Author : Günter Butzer
language : de
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Release Date : 2019-04-15
Gro E Werke Des Films 2 written by Günter Butzer and has been published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Über 120 Jahre nach den ersten öffentlichen Vorführungen ist der Film längst als eigenständige Kunst anerkannt, die ihre "Großen Werke" ebenso hervorgebracht hat wie die Literatur, die Musik oder die bildende Kunst. Über die Epochen- und Genregrenzen hinweg hat sich ein Kanon von Werken herausgebildet, der als Bezugsgröße für die Einordnung und Beurteilung von Filmen fungiert, der aber auch immer wieder aufs Neue befragt und revidiert werden muss. Die Reihe "Große Werke des Films", die mit diesem Band fortgeführt wird, will diesen dynamischen Prozess der Kanonbildung, -fortschreibung und -revision mitgestalten, indem sie etablierte Filme neu interpretiert und aktuelle Filme für den Kanon vorschlägt. Der nun vorliegende zweite Band der Reihe präsentiert Werke von Robert Wiene ("Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari"), Tod Browning ("Freaks"), Orson Welles ("Citizen Kane"), Howard Hawks ("Rio Bravo"), Tom Tykwer ("Lola rennt"), David Fincher ("Fight Club"), Sam Mendes ("American Beauty"), Béla Tarr ("Die Werckmeisterschen Harmonien"), Ethan & Joel Coen ("No Country for Old Men"), und Christopher Nolan ("Inception").
Ann Dvorak
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Author : Christina Rice
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2013-11-14
Ann Dvorak written by Christina Rice and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The forgotten screen legend who made Hollywood history by challenging the all-powerful studio system is revealed in this first full-length biography. Seemingly destined for A-list fame, Ann Dvorak was touted as “Hollywood’s New Cinderella” after film mogul Howard Hughes cast her in the 1932 gangster film Scarface. But Dvorak’s journey to superstardom was derailed when she walked out on her contractual obligations to Warner Bros. for an extended honeymoon. Ann Dvorak: Hollywood’s Forgotten Rebel explores the life and career of one of the first individuals who dared to challenge the studio system. Dvorak reached her pinnacle during the early 1930s, when the film industry was relatively uncensored and free to produce movies with more daring storylines. She played several female leads in films including The Strange Love of Molly Louvain, Three on a Match, and Heat Lightning, but after her walk-out, Warner Bros retaliated by casting her in less significant roles. Following the casting conflicts and illness, Dvorak filed a lawsuit against the Warner Bros. studio, setting a precedent for other stars who eventually followed suit. In this insightful memoir, Christina Rice explores the spirited rebellion of a talented actress whose promising career fell victim to the studio empire.