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Hitchcock and the censors
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Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humour, religious disrespect, and a...
Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humour, religious disrespect, and all forms of indecency, real or imagined. From 1934 to 1968, the Motion Picture Production Code Office controlled the content and final cut on all films made and distributed in the United States. Code officials protected sensitive ears from standard four-letter words, as well as a few five-letter words like tramp and six-letter words like cripes. They also scrubbed 'excessively lustful' kissing from the screen and ensured that no criminal went unpunished. This text examines the censorship of Hitchcock's work.
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- Creator
- John Billheimer
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- 1st ed
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2020
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780813177434, 081317743X, 9780813177441, 0813177448, 9780813177410, 0813177413, 0813177421
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The code and the censors. Origin of the code -- Censors at work -- The British years (1922-1939). The British Board of Film Censors -- The British Gaumont thrillers -- The Selznick years (1940-1947). Hitchcock and Selznick -- Rebecca (1940) -- Foreign correspondent (1940) -- Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) -- Suspicion (1941) -- Saboteur (1942) -- Shadow of a doubt (1943) -- Lifeboat (1944) -- Spellbound (1945) -- Notorious (1946) -- The Paradine case (1947) -- The Transatlantic years (1948-1949). Hitchcock and Transatlantic -- Rope (1948) -- Under Capricorn (1949) -- The Warner's years (1950-1954). Hitchcock and Warner Bros -- Stage fright (1950) -- Strangers on a train (1951) -- I confess (1953) -- Dial M for murder (1954) -- The glory years (1954-1968). Hitchcock in ascendance -- Rear window (1954) -- To catch a thief (1955) -- The trouble with Harry (1955) -- The man who knew too much (1956) -- The wrong man (1956) -- Vertigo (1958) -- North by Northwest (1959) - Psycho (1960) -- The birds (1963) -- Marnie (1964) -- Torn curtain (1966) -- The television years (1955-1965). Television censorship -- Alfred Hitchcock presents -- The post-code years (1968-1980).The decline of the code -- The rise of the rating system -- Topaz (1969) -- Frenzy (1972) -- Family plot (1976) -- Conclusion