17 May 2009 20:00
A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980 (Paperback)
Review
An informative and stimulating book that explores our popular mythology through illuminating discussions of commercially successful films ranging from Casablanca to Taxi Driver. (New York Times Book Review )
An analysis of the ideolog...
16 May 2009 11:00
Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968 (Paperback)
Stephen Prince has written the first book to examine 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 script...
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