03974nam 2200745 a 450 991078570520332120230803025003.00-8047-8487-610.1515/9780804784870(CKB)2670000000315147(EBL)1098009(OCoLC)823725613(SSID)ssj0000803825(PQKBManifestationID)12387637(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803825(PQKBWorkID)10811229(PQKB)10308427(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127870(MiAaPQ)EBC1098009(DE-B1597)564478(DE-B1597)9780804784870(Au-PeEL)EBL1098009(CaPaEBR)ebr10636336(OCoLC)1178768949(EXLCZ)99267000000031514720120726d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBetter left unsaid[electronic resource] Victorian novels, Hays Code films, and the benefits of censorship /Nora GilbertStanford, Calif. Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press20131 online resource (202 p.)The cultural lives of lawDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-9531-2 0-8047-8420-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : the joy of censorship -- The sounds of silence: W.M. Thackeray and Preston Sturges -- For sophisticated eyes only : Jane Austen and George Cukor -- Beyond censorship : Charles Dickens and Frank Capra -- The thrill of the fight : Charlotte Brontë and Elia Kazan -- Postscript : Oscar Wilde and Mae West.Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking two genres 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. As much as Victorianism is equated with such cultural impulses as repression and prudery, few scholars have explored the Victorian novel as a "censored" commodity—thanks, in large part, to the indirectness and intangibility of England's literary censorship process. This indirection stands in sharp contrast to the explicit, detailed formality of Hollywood's infamous Production Code of 1930. In comparing these two versions of censorship, Nora Gilbert explores the paradoxical effects of prohibitive practices. Rather than being ruined by censorship, Victorian novels and Hays Code films were stirred and stimulated by the very forces meant to restrain them.Cultural lives of law.English fiction19th centuryCensorshipFictionCensorshipGreat BritainHistory19th centuryMotion picturesCensorshipUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiterature and moralsGreat BritainHistory19th centuryMotion picturesMoral and ethical aspectsUnited StatesCensorshipGreat BritainHistory19th centuryCensorshipUnited StatesHistory20th centuryEnglish fictionCensorship.FictionCensorshipHistoryMotion picturesCensorshipHistoryLiterature and moralsHistoryMotion picturesMoral and ethical aspectsCensorshipHistoryCensorshipHistory363.31/0941Gilbert Nora1548544MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785705203321Better left unsaid3805643UNINA