Better left unsaid : Victorian novels, Hays Code films, and the benefits of censorship / Nora Gilbert.

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Gilbert, Nora [author.]

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TextSeries: Cultural lives of lawPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (x, 181 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780804784870
0804784876

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Better left unsaidDDC classification:

363.31/0941 23

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PR878.C45 G55 2012eb

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Contents:

Introduction : the joy of censorship -- The sounds of silence : W.M. Thackeray and Preston Sturges -- For sophisticated eyes only : Jane Austen and George Cukor -- Beyond censorship : Charles Dickens and Frank Capra -- The thrill of the fight : Charlotte Brontë and Elia Kazan -- Postscript : Oscar Wilde and Mae West.

Summary: This study defendins censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally levelled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife - the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film - it reveals the varied ways in which censorship, for all its blustery self-righteousness, can actually be good for sex, politics, feminism, and art. Rather than being ruined by censorship, Victorian novels and Hays Code films were stirred and stimulated by the very forces meant to restrain them.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This study defendins censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally levelled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife - the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film - it reveals the varied ways in which censorship, for all its blustery self-righteousness, can actually be good for sex, politics, feminism, and art. Rather than being ruined by censorship, Victorian novels and Hays Code films were stirred and stimulated by the very forces meant to restrain them.

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