Wages of Sin Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942

Name: Wages of Sin Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942
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ISBN: 9780520207905

ISBN-10: 0520207904

ISBN-13: 9780520207905

Edition: 1997

Authors: Lea Jacobs

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The story of the fallen woman was a staple of film melodrama in the late 1920s and 1930s. In traditional plots, a woman commits a sexual transgression, usually adultery. She becomes an outcast, often a prostitute, suffering humiliations that culminate in her death. In more modern variants, the heroine is a stereotypical "kept woman," "gold digger," or wisecracking shopgirl who uses men to become rich. InThe Wages of Sin, Lea Jacobs uses the fallen woman film, which served as a focal point for public criticism of the film industry, to explore Hollywood's system of self-censorship and the evolution of the rules governing representations of sexuality. Drawing on the extensive case files of the…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English