From the editor and writers of Bright Lights Film Journal
Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
"I dare anyone to squeeze between
two covers a more varied, useful and
flat out entertaining sampling of
the personalities that make the
seventh art the liveliest."
— David Hudson, IFC.com
— David Hudson, IFC.com
in Blondie of the Follies
in Call Her Savage
vamping for George Hurrell
in Call Her Savage
in Kongo
in Faithless
in Shanghai Express
A Gallery of Pre-Code Women
Click any of the above pictures to launch the gallery.
About
The term Pre-Code, or phrase "Pre-Code Hollywood," refers to "the era in the American film industry between the introduction of sound in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Hays Code, which went into effect on July 1, 1934. Until that date, movie content was restricted more by local laws and public opinion than adherence to the United States Motion Picture Production Code of 1930, which generally was ignored by Hollywood filmmakers."1
Notes
1. "Pre-Code Hollywood," Wikipedia (26 August 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood [28 August 2009]). See also Mick LaSalle, "Pre-Code Hollywood," Greencine.com (n.d. http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/precode.jsp [28 August 2009]).
