Breaking the Code: Otto Preminger Versus Hollywood's Censors

by Nat Segaloff

Book Overview

Breaking the Code reveals the efforts of director-producer Otto Preminger to bring his aesthetic vision to the screen even if it meant challenging the Production Code, a system of self-censorship that shaped the movies during the four decades it was in force. Along the way, Preminger sent shock waves through Hollywood and a network of exhibitors, publishers, and religious leaders who had personal, and even financial, stakes in the repression of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493074881
• ISBN13: 9781493074884
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Applause Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"