Dangerous Men Movie Actors Pre Code Gable Cagney Tracy Chaney Muni Photos HC/DJ

Description: 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. Also listed Julie Andrews SIGNED, Thelma Todd, Jean Harlow, Desi Arnaz, Norma Shearer SIGNED, Jennifer Jones, Hurrell, Joe Dallesandro, Gene Kelly SIGNED, Myrna Loy, Eve Arden SIGNED, Veronica Lake & other Hollywood Items!! Thanks for looking and happy bidding Combine postage offered on all items

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