Dangerous men
Subtitle: pre-code Hollywood and the birth of the modern man
By: Mick LaSalle.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
Description: "The five years between 1929 and mid-1934 were 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-240) and index.