Hollywood and the female body : a history of idolization and objectification /

""From the first, brief moving images of female nudes in the 1880s to the present, the motion picture camera made the female body a battleground in what we now call the culture wars. Churchmen feared the excitation of male lust; feminists decried the idealization of a body type that devalu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Handzo, Stephen, 1944- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
Subjects:	Women in motion pictures. Nudity in motion pictures. Sexism in motion pictures. Feminism and motion pictures. Motion pictures > United States > History. Motion picture industry > California > Los Angeles > History. Women in the motion picture industry > United States > History. Motion picture industry. Motion pictures. Women in the motion picture industry. California > Los Angeles. United States. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Prologue
Not So Innocent: Controversy and Censorship in the Silent Era
Why Be Good? Flappers, Flaming Youth and an "It" Girl
Pre-Code, Post-Code and Non-Code: Before and After the Moral Crackdown of the 1930s
Something for the Boys: Pin-Ups and Love Goddesses of the
World War II Era
"She came at me in sections": Women in Postwar Genre Movies
"Looking for trouble": Howard Hughes vs. the Production Code
(Again)
Hollywood Or Bust: Fifties Blondes and "Mammary Madness"
"Banned by Cardinal Spellman": Baby Doll and Southern
Decadence
Bikini Beach: From the Fifties to the Sixties
The Nude Scene: Children Under 17 Not Admitted
Blue Movie: Coming to a Theater Near You-Pornography
Girls Trip: The End of the Double Standard?
Epilogue. The Reckoning: Weinstein and the #MeToo Movement.