| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934. By Thomas Doherty. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xvi, 430 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-11094-4. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-231-11095-2.)

On March 31, 1930, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPpda) adopted a Production Code that set standards of purity in cinema. The Production Code delineated what could be seen, heard, and implied on screen with respect to sex, violence, religion, language, clothing, and other matters. It was not until July 2, 1934, however, that the Production Code Administration was empowered to enforce the code rigorously. Thomas Doherty, a professor of American studies and film studies at Brandeis University, focuses on this four-year period, which is dubbed the pre-Code era, and the liberties Hollywood took. . . .

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