Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930?"1934 (Paperback)

1. On the Cusp of Classical Hollywood Cinema
Patrolling the Diegesis
Pre-Code Contexts
2. Breadlines and Box Office Lines: Hollywood in the Nadir of the Great Depression
The Lost Millions
A Synchronized Industry
"Mike Fright"
3. Preachment Yarns: The Politics of Mere Entertainment
Telegraphing Ideology
Class Distinctions
Professional Malfeasance
4. Dictators and Democrats: The Rage for Order
Hankering for Supermen
"The Barrymore of the Capital": The Newsreel Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A New Deal in the Last Reel
The Mad Dog of Europe
5. Vice Rewarded: The Wages of Cinematic Sin
Packaging Vice
Models of Immorality
Figurative Literalness
Queer Flashes
"Women Love Dirt"
Working Girls
6. Criminal Codes: Gangsters Unbound, Felons in Custody
Rushing Toward Death: The Gangster Film
Men Behind Bars: The Prison Film
7. Comic Timing: Cracking Wise and Wising Up
Commentators on the Action
Story, Screenplay, and All Dialogue by Mae West
Newspaper Patter
The Blue Eagle and Duck Soup (1933)
8. News on Screen: The Vividness of Mechanical Immortality
Library Stock
The Newsreel Ethos
Covering Up the Great Depression
9. Remote Kinships: The Geography of the Expeditionary Film
Points on the Compass
Faking It: Phoney Expeditions and Real Deaths
The Dark Continent
10. Primitive Mating Rituals: The Color Wheel of the Racial Adventure Film
"He's White": Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932) and Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Red Skin, Red Lips: Massacre (1934)
East Mates West
"The Ethiopian Trade"
Nerve and Brains: Paul Robeson and The Emperor Jones (1933)
Beauty and the Beast: King Kong (1933)
11. Nightmare Pictures: The Quality of Gruesomeness
Rugged Individualism: Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), and Their Progeny
The Lower Orders Rise Up: Island of Lost Souls (1933) and Freaks (1932)
12. Classical Hollywood Cinema: The World According to Joseph I. Breen
"The Storm of '34"
Hollywood Under the Code
Post-Code Hollywood Cinema