Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration

Thomas Doherty

Paper, 440 pages, 60 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14359-2
$22.50 / £15.50

November, 2007
Cloth, 440 pages, 60 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14358-5
$29.50 / £20.50

Web Features

• Read reviews from the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Read Thomas Doherty’s piece “Code Breakers” from the Boston Globe
• Read Doherty’s article, “The Code Before ‘Da Vinci’”in the Washington Post

Related Subjects

• American History
• Film
• Popular Culture

About the Author

Thomas Doherty is professor of American studies at Brandeis University. He serves on the editorial board of Cineaste and is the author of Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture; Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934; Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II; and Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s.

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