Hollywood's Censor

Klappentext Cultural historian Thomas Doherty recounts the untold tale of the man who dictated "final cut" over more movies than anyone in the history of American cinema. Empowered by industry insiders and millions of like-minded Catholics! Joseph I. Breen oversaw the editing of A-list feature films! low-budget B movies! short subjects! previews of coming attractions! and even cartoons. Populated by a colorful cast of characters! including Catholic priests! Jewish moguls! visionary auteurs! hardnosed journalists! and bluenose agitators! Doherty's insightful! behind-the-scenes portrait brings a tumultuous era--and an individual both feared and admired-to vivid life. Zusammenfassung Cultural historian Thomas Doherty recounts the untold tale of the man who dictated "final cut" over more movies than anyone in the history of American cinema. Empowered by industry insiders and millions of like-minded Catholics! Joseph I. Breen oversaw the editing of A-list feature films! low-budget B movies! short subjects! previews of coming attractions! and even cartoons. Populated by a colorful cast of characters! including Catholic priests! Jewish moguls! visionary auteurs! hardnosed journalists! and bluenose agitators! Doherty's insightful! behind-the-scenes portrait brings a tumultuous era--and an individual both feared and admired-to vivid life.

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Thomas Doherty is professor of American studies at Brandeis University. He serves on the editorial board of Cineaste and is the author of Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture; Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934; Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II; and Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s.

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Opening Credits Prologue: Hollywood, 1954 1 The Victorian Irishman 2 Bluenoses Against the Screen 3 Hollywood Shot to Pieces 4 The Breen Office 5 Decoding Classical Hollywood Cinema 6 Confessional 7 Intermission at RKO 8 At War with the Breen Office 9 In His Sacerdotalism 10 "Our Semitic Brethren" 11 Social Problems, Existential Dilemmas and Outsized Anatomies 12 Invasion of the Art Films 13 Amending the Ten Commandments 14 Not the Breen Office 15 Final Cut: Joseph I. Breen and the Auteur Theory Appendix: The Production Code Notes Film Index Index