Stephen Prince

Classical Film Violence

Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968

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Produktbeschreibung

This text examines the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when filmmakers were required to have their scripts approved before they could start production.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 331
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 155mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780813532813
• ISBN-10: 0813532817
• Artikelnr.: 22125049

Autorenporträt

STEPHEN PRINCE is a professor of communication studies at Virginia Tech. His many books include A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989, Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies, and Screening Violence (Rutgers University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Censorship and Screen Violence before 1930
2. Cruelty, Sadism, and the Horror Film
3. Elaborating Gun Violence
4. Throwing the Extra Punch
5. The Poetics of Screen Violence
6. After the Deluge
Appendix A: Primary Sample of Films
Appendix B: The Production Code
Appendix C: Special Regulations on Crime in Motion Pictures (1938)
Notes
Bibliography
Index