東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Movie-Made Miscegenation: Censorship...

Kelleher, Bridget R.,

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Movie-Made Miscegenation: Censorship and the Miscegenation Drama in Pre-Code Hollywood, 1927-34 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Movie-Made Miscegenation: Censorship and the Miscegenation Drama in Pre-Code Hollywood, 1927-34 // Bridget R Kelleher.
Author:	Kelleher, Bridget R.,
Description:	1 electronic resource (295 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-03A.
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31487107
ISBN:	9798384050568

Movie-Made Miscegenation: Censorship and the Miscegenation Drama in Pre-Code Hollywood, 1927-34 /
Kelleher, Bridget R.,

Movie-Made Miscegenation: Censorship and the Miscegenation Drama in Pre-Code Hollywood, 1927-34 /Bridget R Kelleher. - 1 electronic resource (295 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: A.

This dissertation examines the institutional and cultural history of the Motion Picture Production Code (1930-1967) and the role of pre-Code era of Hollywood (1927-1934) in defining "miscegenation" and reifying its taboo for modern Americans. Narratives and imagery of miscegenation and interracialism are present from the earliest days of film, and were one of the first things to be censored by the film industry's self-censorship apparatus within the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America in the 1920s. In banning miscegenation from films mostly for the Southern markets, censors stepped into a national cultural debate around the legality, morality, and importance of restricting interracial intimacy and marriage. During the formative period of the pre-Code, between 1927 and 1934, the miscegenation ban's piecemeal enforcement reflected a process of negotiation that expanded the definition of miscegenation from exclusively White/Black pairings to include depictions of White/Asian interracial intimacy. This period also solidified the narrative convention, structured by the demands of the Code, of the movie miscegenation drama. This narrative convention was widely applied to all depictions of interracial intimacy, including White/Polynesian and White/American Indian pairings which were not widely considered miscegenetic within the United States at the time. The movie miscegenation drama thus portrayed all interracial intimacy as taboo and dangerous, flattening the complexities of American attitudes towards diverse relationships. By combining analyses of films, censorship, industry publications, and audience responses, I show the wide-ranging impact of the pre-Code period and industry self-censorship in developing the movie miscegenation drama and refining the normative boundaries of race and gender for national audiences.

English

ISBN: 9798384050568Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Censorship

Movie-Made Miscegenation: Censorship and the Miscegenation Drama in Pre-Code Hollywood, 1927-34 /
LDR:03363nmm a22004573i 4500 001 2432811
005 20250807123459.5
006 m o d
007 cr|nu||||||||
008 261011s2024 miu||||||m |||||||eng d
020 $a 9798384050568
035 $a (MiAaPQD)AAI31487107
035 $a AAI31487107
040 $a MiAaPQD $b eng $c MiAaPQD $e rda
100 1 $a Kelleher, Bridget R., $e author. $0 (orcid)0009-0002-4069-7925 $3 3822184
245 1 0 $a Movie-Made Miscegenation: Censorship and the Miscegenation Drama in Pre-Code Hollywood, 1927-34 / $c Bridget R Kelleher.
264 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2024
300 $a 1 electronic resource (295 pages)
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: A.
500 $a Advisors: Hansen, Karen V.; Doherty, Thomas Committee members: Doolan, Yuri; Montrie, Chad.
502 $b Ph.D. $c Brandeis University $d 2024.
520 $a This dissertation examines the institutional and cultural history of the Motion Picture Production Code (1930-1967) and the role of pre-Code era of Hollywood (1927-1934) in defining "miscegenation" and reifying its taboo for modern Americans. Narratives and imagery of miscegenation and interracialism are present from the earliest days of film, and were one of the first things to be censored by the film industry's self-censorship apparatus within the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America in the 1920s. In banning miscegenation from films mostly for the Southern markets, censors stepped into a national cultural debate around the legality, morality, and importance of restricting interracial intimacy and marriage. During the formative period of the pre-Code, between 1927 and 1934, the miscegenation ban's piecemeal enforcement reflected a process of negotiation that expanded the definition of miscegenation from exclusively White/Black pairings to include depictions of White/Asian interracial intimacy. This period also solidified the narrative convention, structured by the demands of the Code, of the movie miscegenation drama. This narrative convention was widely applied to all depictions of interracial intimacy, including White/Polynesian and White/American Indian pairings which were not widely considered miscegenetic within the United States at the time. The movie miscegenation drama thus portrayed all interracial intimacy as taboo and dangerous, flattening the complexities of American attitudes towards diverse relationships. By combining analyses of films, censorship, industry publications, and audience responses, I show the wide-ranging impact of the pre-Code period and industry self-censorship in developing the movie miscegenation drama and refining the normative boundaries of race and gender for national audiences.
546 $a English
590 $a School code: 0021
650 4 $a American history. $3 2122692
650 4 $a Film studies. $3 2122736
650 4 $a Ethnic studies. $2 bicssc $3 1556779
653 $a Censorship
653 $a Gender
653 $a Hollywood
653 $a Miscegenation
653 $a Pre-Code
653 $a Race
690 $a 0337
690 $a 0900
690 $a 0631
710 2 $a Brandeis University. $b History. $e degree granting institution. $3 3822185
720 1 $a Hansen, Karen V. $e degree supervisor.
720 1 $a Doherty, Thomas $e degree supervisor.
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 86-03A.
790 $a 0021
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2024
856 4 0 $u https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31487107