Full name: Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood

Author: Mark A. Vieira Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780810982284 9780810944756 0810982285 0810944758

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. 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. Similar books: Easy riders, raging bulls by Peter Biskind The Genius of the System by Thomas Schatz The Whole Equation by David Thomson The Studio by John Gregory Dunne Seeing Is Believing by Peter Biskind Spike, Mike, Slackers, & Dykes by John Pierson The Hollywood Studios by Ethan Mordden Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskind Bambi vs. Godzilla by David Mamet Complicated Women by Mick LaSalle Midnight Movies by J. Hoberman Pictures at a Revolution by Mark Harris The MGM Story by John Douglas Eames The Star Machine by Jeanine Basinger Picture by Lillian Ross Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Go Like Hell by A. J. Baime