Hollywood and the Female Body: A History of Idolization and Objectification

ISBN-13: 9781476679136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 232 str.

Stephen Handzo

Spis treści

• Introduction 1
• Prologue 5
• 1. Not So Innocent: Controversy and Censorship in the Silent Era 9
• 2. Why Be Good? Flappers, Flaming Youth and an "It" Girl 29
• 3. Pre-Code, Post-Code and Non-Code: Before and After the Moral Crackdown of the 1930s 45
• 4. Something for the Boys: Pin-Ups and Love Goddesses of the World War II Era 62
• 5. "She came at me in sections": Women in Postwar Genre Movies 79
• 6. "Looking for trouble": Howard Hughes vs. the Production Code (Again) 95
• 7. Hollywood or Bust: Fifties Blondes and "Mammary Madness" 105
• 8. "Banned by Cardinal Spellman": Baby Doll and Southern Decadence 116
• 9. Bikini Beach: From the Fifties to the Sixties 122
• 10. The Nude Scene: Children Under 17 Not Admitted 148
• 11. Blue Movie: Coming to a Theater Near You—Pornography 176
• 12. Girls' Trip: The End of the Double Standard? 190
• Epilogue. The Reckoning: Weinstein and the #MeToo Movement 199
• Chapter Notes 209
• Bibliography 213
• Index 215