Description:
This book explores the four-year interval between 1930 and 1934, a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Doherty chronicles how the freewheeling films of an unrestricted Hollywood inform the culture of America in the 1930s.
Brief description: Thomas Doherty is professor of American studies at Brandeis University. His previous books include Hollywood and Hitler (Columbia University Press, 2013); Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934 (CUP, 2009); Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (CUP, 2005); and Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration (CUP, 2009).
Review Quotes: Pre-Code Hollywood is not only fun to read, it's instructive--a valuable, organized dip into a narrow slice of Hollywood history.--Robert Gottlieb "The New York Times Book Review"