Censoring Hollywood by Aubrey Malone is published

Oct. 2, 2011 - PRLog -- Censorship has been an ongoing issue from the early days of filmmaking. One hundred years of film censorship, encompassing the entire 20th century, are chronicled in this work. The freewheeling nature of films in the early decades was profoundly affected by Prohibition, the Depression and the formation of the Legion of Decency--culminating in a new age of restrictiveness in the movies.

Such powerful arbiters of public taste as Will H. Hays of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America and Joseph Breen of the Production Code Association fomented an era whereby films with contentious material were severely censored or even condemned. This held sway until rebellious filmmakers like Otto Preminger challenged the system in the 1950s, eventually resulting in the abandonment of the old regime in favor of the contemporary "G" through "NC-17" ratings system.


About the Author:

Aubrey Malone is a Dublin-based author. A former teacher, he has been writing books since the mid-1990s. Aubrey has written many books on the cinema as well as literary acclaimed biographies of Ernest Hemingway, Charles Bukowski, Elvis Presley, Brendan Behan and Tom Jones.


About the Publisher:

McFarland is a leading independent publisher of academic and nonfiction books. McFarland is especially known for covering topics of popular appeal in a serious and scholarly fashion, and for going to great lengths to manufacture our books to the highest standards and library specifications. Many of them have received awards as outstanding reference or academic titles.

CENSORING HOLLYWOOD can be ordered from McFarland & Co. at:

http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-6465-4

and from Amazon.co.uk at:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Censoring-Hollywood-Violence-Cutt...

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