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Title The wages of sin : censorship and the fallen woman film, 1928-1942 / Lea Jacobs.
Author Jacobs, Lea.
Publication Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
Description xiii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call # 303.376 J
Note Originally published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1991. With a new pref.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index.
Contents 1. The fallen woman film and the impetus for censorship -- 2. The studio relations committee's policies and procedures -- 3. Glamour and gold diggers -- 4. Something other than a sob story -- 5. The production code administration's policies and procedures -- 6. Class and glamour in the films of the late thirties -- 7. Afterword -- Appendix. Censorship cases reviewed.
Subject Motion pictures -- Censorship -- United States -- History.
Women in motion pictures.
Sex in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Censorship. (OCoLC)fst01027303
Sex in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01114479
Women in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01177931
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Geschichte 1928-1942.
Genre History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0520207904 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520207905 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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