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

by Nora Gilbert

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804795312
• ISBN13: 9780804795319
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Stanford Law Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.4"