| Description |
x, 427 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-407) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Hollywood, 1954 -- The Victorian Irishman -- Bluenoses against the screen -- Hollywood shot to pieces -- The Breen office -- Decoding classical Hollywood cinema -- Confessional -- Intermission at RKO -- At war with the Breen office -- In his sacerdotalism -- "Our semitic brethren" -- Social problems, existential dilemmas, and outsized anatomies -- Invasion of the art films -- Amending the Ten Commandments -- Not the Breen office -- Final cut: Joseph I. Breen and the auteur theory. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Censorship -- United States -- History.
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Motion pictures -- Censorship. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Breen, Joseph Ignatius, 1890-1965.
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Breen, Joseph Ignatius, 1890-1965. |
| ISBN |
9780231143585 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231143583 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780231512848 ebook |
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0231512848 ebook |
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