Complicated Women
豆瓣
Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
Mick LaSalle
简介
The best era for women’s pictures was the pre-Code era, the five years between the point that talkies became widely accepted in 1929 through July 1934, when the dread and draconian Production Code became the law of Hollywoodland. Before the Code, women on screen took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, held down professional positions without apologizing for their self-sufficiency, and in general acted the way many of us think women acted only after 1968.
contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
The Introduction
1. Ingenue Gets a Life
2. Like a Virgin
3. I Said, “Yes”
4. Not Too Young and Not Too Nice
5. “I’m in an Orgy, Wallowing”
6. Shopgirls and Sex Vultures
7. Getting Away with Murder
8. The Ghastly Job of Living Together
9. The Censors Strike Back
10. The Great Garbo and Norma Who?
11. Garbo’s Granddaughters
12. Norma in the New Millennium
Epilogue
Appendix: Complicated Women on Television and Video
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
Praise for Complicated Women
Copyright