Better Left Unsaid - Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship

Zusatztext "Turning the tables on inherited notions of oppression and freedom, Nora Gilbert shows how writers and filmmakers worked within frames of control that in their collusion the market economy and public opinion had drawn around them. Through her meticulous comparisons of Victorian novels and Hays Code Hollywood, Gilbert studies visual and verbal slippage, inference, irony and, no less, the pleasure of perversion. Informative and a delight to read, Better Left Unsaid sparkles with wit and invention." Informationen zum Autor Nora Gilbert is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Texas. Klappentext Nora Gilbert is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Texas. Zusammenfassung Taking two narrative genres that are generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife-the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film-this book reveals the varied ways in which censorship, for all its blustery self-righteousness, can actually be good for sex, politics, feminism, and art.

Product details

• Authors: Nora Gilbert, Gilbert Nora
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9780804795319
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-9531-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: The Cultural Lives of Law; The Cultural Lives of Law
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education