Hitchcock and the censors / John Billheimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Billheimer, John W., author.

Series:

Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)

Kentucky scholarship online.

Screen classics

Kentucky scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Censorship--Great Britain.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Censorship--United States.

Television--Censorship--United States.

Television.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Criticism and interpretation.

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2020.

Summary:

Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humour, religious disrespect, and all forms of indecency, real or imagined. From 1934 to 1968, the Motion Picture Production Code Office controlled the content and final cut on all films made and distributed in the United States. Code officials protected sensitive ears from standard four-letter words, as well as a few five-letter words like tramp and six-letter words like cripes. They also scrubbed 'excessively lustful' kissing from the screen and ensured that no criminal went unpunished. This text examines the censorship of Hitchcock's work.

Contents:

The code and the censors. Origin of the code

Censors at work

The British years (1922-1939). The British Board of Film Censors

The British Gaumont thrillers

The Selznick years (1940-1947). Hitchcock and Selznick

Rebecca (1940)

Foreign correspondent (1940)

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)

Suspicion (1941)

Saboteur (1942)

Shadow of a doubt (1943)

Lifeboat (1944)

Spellbound (1945)

Notorious (1946)

The Paradine case (1947)

The Transatlantic years (1948-1949). Hitchcock and Transatlantic

Rope (1948)

Under Capricorn (1949)

The Warner's years (1950-1954). Hitchcock and Warner Bros

Stage fright (1950)

Strangers on a train (1951)

I confess (1953)

Dial M for murder (1954)

The glory years (1954-1968). Hitchcock in ascendance

Rear window (1954)

To catch a thief (1955)

The trouble with Harry (1955)

The man who knew too much (1956)

The wrong man (1956)

Vertigo (1958)

North by Northwest (1959) - Psycho (1960)

The birds (1963)

Marnie (1964)

Torn curtain (1966)

The television years (1955-1965). Television censorship

Alfred Hitchcock presents

The post-code years (1968-1980).The decline of the code

The rise of the rating system

Topaz (1969)

Frenzy (1972)

Family plot (1976)

Conclusion.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 2, 2019).

ISBN:

9780813177434

081317743X

9780813177441

0813177448

9780813177410

0813177413