Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood
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This text showcases the boldly creative "pre-code" period in Hollywood in the early 1930s, when defiant producers flouted the restrictions of the censors. Illustrated with film stills, it portrays Joan Crawford, Clara Bow and James Cagney in some of the era's most controversial films.
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Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood by Mark A Vieira
Showcasing the "pre-Code Hollywood" era, this is an account of the making of films between March 1930, when the film industry adopted the Production Code, and July 1934, when it became fully enforced. Mark Vieira documents the infamous power struggle between Hollywood producers and the censors, who sought to forbid profanity, excessive violence, illegal drugs, sexual perversion and explicitness, white slavery, racial mingling, suggestive dancing, lustful kissing and the like. Illustrated with film stills and production shots, the book captures the visual artistry of the era's controversial films and highlights the careers of screen luminaries such as Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, James Cagney, Mae West, Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, Claudette Colbert, Norma Shearer, Gary Cooper and Clark Gable.
Mark A. Vieira is an acclaimed portrait photographer and film historian specializing in the photographic legacy of Hollywood. In addition to Abrams' Hurrell's Hollywood Portraits, he has written production histories of pre-Code films for Bright Lights Film Journal and two pictorial histories, Hollywood Portraits, 1929-1941 and Hollywood Portraits, 1939-1951.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780810982284 |
| ISBN 10 | 0810982285 |
| Title | Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood |
| Author | Mark A Vieira |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Abrams |
| Year published | 2003-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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