Two new books now chart the course of this freewheeling era in Hollywood history when vice went unpunished on the screen and gangsters, call girls, adulterers, con men, romantic revolutionaries and "moral reprobates" were, by all standards of measurement, the favored heroes of American cinematic culture. It's a really nice article reviewing the books Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality and Insurrection in American Cinema by Thomas Doherty and Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood by Mark A.?Vieira.?Read more...
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