Dangerous men
pre-code Hollywood and the birth of the modern man
by Mick LaSalle
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"The five years between 1929 and mid-1934 were a period of loosened censorship that finally ended with the imposition of a harsh Production Code that would, for the next thirty-four years, censor much of the life and honesty out of American movies. Dangerous Men takes a close look at the images of manhood during this pre-Code era, which coincided with an interesting time for men - the culmination of a generation-long transformation in the masculine ideal.
By the late twenties, the tumult of a new century had made the nineteenth century's notion of the ideal man seem like a repressed stuffed shirt, a deluded optimist. The smiling, confident hero of just a few years before fell out of favor, and the new heroes who emerged were gangsters, opportunists, sleazy businessmen, shifty lawyers, shell-shocked soldiers - men whose existence threatened the status quo."--BOOK JACKET.
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Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man
2014, St. Martin's Press
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Dangerous men: pre-code Hollywood and the birth of the modern man
2002, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-240) and index.
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