The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code

by Leonard J. Leff, Jerold L. Simmons

Overview

The new edition of this seminal work takes the story of the Production Code and motion picture censorship into the present, including the creation of the PG-13 and NC-17 ratings in the 1990s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813143460
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	06/29/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	420
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Leonard J. Leff, professor of English at Oklahoma State University, is the author of Hitchcock and Selznick. Jerold L. Simmons, professor of history at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, is the author of The Campaign to Abolish the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Editorial Reviews

The triumph of Leff and Simmons's fine work is that they have reminded us of how fatuous and inimical a code of conduct can be: how tempting it is as a theoretical answer, and how intrinsically flawed it is as a working solution.

Times of London

A valuable insight into our own innocence and naiveté.

New York Times Book Review

A readable, intimate account of the rise to near-tyrannical power, and the fall to well-deserved ignominy, of the old Production Code Administration.

Atlantic Monthly

"A readable, intimate account of the rise to near-tyrannical power, and the fall to well-deserved ignominy, of the old Production Code Administration." — Atlantic Monthly

"A valuable insight into our own innocence and naiveté." — New York Times Book Review

"The triumph of Leff and Simmons's fine work is that they have reminded us of how fatuous and inimical a code of conduct can be: how tempting it is as a theoretical answer, and how intrinsically flawed it is as a working solution." — Times of London

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