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The Wages of Sin In this text, Lea Jacobs uses the "fallen woman" film, which served as a focal point for public criticism of the film industry, to explore Hollywood's system of self-censorship and the evolution of the rules governing representations of sexuality.
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The story of the fallen woman was a staple of film melodrama in the late 1920s and 1930s. In traditional plots, a woman commits a sexual transgression, usually adultery. She becomes an outcast, often a prostitute, suffering humiliations that culminate in her death. In more modern variants, the heroine is a stereotypical "kept woman", "gold digger", or wisecracking shopgirl who uses men to get rich. In this text, Lea Jacobs uses the fallen woman film, which served as a focal point for public criticism of the film industry, to explore Hollywood's system of self censorship and the evolution of the rules governing representations of sexuality. Drawing on the extensive case files of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (MPPDA), the industry trade association responsible for censorship, Jacob focuses on six films. Her close analyses of "The Easiest Way", "Baby Face", "Blonde Venus", "Anna Karenina", "Kitty Foyle" and "Stella Dallas" reveal the ideology of self-regulation at work and the social constraints affecting the film industry.
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Lea Jacobs is Associate Professor of Film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0520207904
- ISBN 13 9780520207905
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages220
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