Dangerous Men - Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man by Mick LaSalle , copyright 2002 1st edition - This book with dustjacket is in very good condition - dustjacket in very good condition with no wear - The book has no torn or missing pages nor writing ..
The five years between 1929 and mid-1934 was a period of loosened
censorship that finally ended with the imposition of a harsh Production
Code that would, for the next thirty-four years, censor much of the life
and honesty out of American movies. Dangerous Men takes a close look at
the images of manhood during this pre-Code era, which coincided with an
interesting time for men-the culmination of a generation-long
transformation in the masculine ideal. By the late twenties, the tumult
of a new century had made the nineteenth century's notion of the ideal
man seem like a repressed stuffed shirt, a deluded optimist. The
smiling, confident hero of just a few years before fell out of favor,
and the new heroes who emerged were gangsters, opportunists, sleazy
businessmen, shifty lawyers, shell-shocked soldiers-men whose existence
threatened the status quo.
In this book, LaSalle highlights
such household names as James Cagney, Clark Gable, Edward G. Robinson,
Maurice Chevalier, Spencer Tracy, and Gary Cooper, along with
lesser-known ones such as Richard Barthelmess, Lee Tracy, Robert
Montgomery, and the magnificent Warren William. Together they represent a
vision of manhood more exuberant and contentious-and more humane-than
anything that has followed on the American screen.
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