{"title":"Thomas Doherty","description":"Thomas Doherty is associate professor in the American Studies Department and chair of the Film Studies Program at Brandeis University. He is the author of Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II (Columbia, 1993) and Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s,  and is associate editor of the film journal Cinéaste.","products":[{"product_id":"pre-code-hollywood-sex-immorality-and-insurrection-in-american-cinema-1930a-1934-paperback","title":"Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930â \"1934 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePre-Code Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films--a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Though more unbridled, salacious, subversive, and just plain bizarre than what came afterwards, the films of the period do indeed have the look of Hollywood cinema--but the moral terrain is so off-kilter that they seem imported from a parallel universe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a sense, Doherty avers, the films of pre-Code Hollywood \u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e from another universe. They lay bare what Hollywood under the Production Code attempted to cover up and push offscreen: sexual liaisons unsanctified by the laws of God or man, marriage ridiculed and redefined, ethnic lines crossed and racial barriers ignored, economic injustice exposed and political corruption assumed, vice unpunished and virtue unrewarded--in sum, pretty much the raw stuff of American culture, unvarnished and unveiled. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo other book has yet sought to interpret the films and film-related meanings of the pre-Code era--what defined the period, why it ended, and what its relationship was to the country as a whole during the darkest years of the Great Depression... and afterward.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films -- a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Though more unbridled, salacious, subversive, and just plain bizarre than what came afterwards, the films of the period do indeed have the look of Hollywood cinema -- but the moral terrain is so off-kilter that they seem imported from a parallel universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a sense, Doherty avers, the films of pre-Code Hollywood are from another universe. They lay bare what Hollywood under the Production Code attempted to cover up and push offscreen: sexual liaisons unsanctified by the laws of God or man, marriage ridiculed and redefined, ethnic lines crossed and racial barriers ignored, economic injustice exposed and political corruption assumed, vice unpunished and virtue unrewarded -- in sum, pretty much the raw stuff of American culture, unvarnished and unveiled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo other book has yet sought to interpret the films and film-related meanings of the pre-Code era -- what defined the period, why it ended, and what its relationship was to the country as a whole during the darkest years of the Great Depression ... and afterward.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365698961631,"sku":"9780231110952","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/i9EOwZnfHz9780231110952.webp?v=1789070119"},{"product_id":"how-film-became-history-the-rise-of-the-archival-documentary-in-1930s-america-hardcover","title":"How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from nearly forty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film stitched together from the raw material of older films. At around the same time, the transition to synchronous sound added a transformative new element to the grammar of cinema: the voiceover narration. Together, the film inventory and offscreen commentary gave rise to the archival documentary, the motion picture genre that preserves and rewinds history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas Doherty tells the story of the archival documentary, spotlighting the first films that set out deliberately to preserve history on screen. He shows how newsreels and documentaries challenged the era's restrictive censorship and how film began to engage with the great political issues of the day. Doherty considers a range of films--some well-known, others obscure--including J. Stuart Blackton's \u003ci\u003eThe Film Parade\u003c\/i\u003e (1933), Laurence Stallings and Truman Talley's \u003ci\u003eThe First World War\u003c\/i\u003e (1934), Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.'s \u003ci\u003eHitler's Reign of Terror \u003c\/i\u003e(1934), Max Eastman and Herbert Axelbank's \u003ci\u003eTsar to Lenin\u003c\/i\u003e (1937), and the \u003ci\u003eMarch of Time\u003c\/i\u003e screen magazine. 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