1. On the Cusp of Classical Hollywood Cinema -- 2. Breadlines and Box Office Lines: Hollywood in the Nadir of the Great Depression -- 3. Preachment Yarns: The Politics of Mere Entertainment -- 4. Dictators and Democrats: The Rage for Order -- 5. Vice Rewarded: The Wages of Cinematic Sin -- 6. Criminal Codes: Gangsters Unbound, Felons in Custody -- 7. Comic Timing: Cracking Wise and Wising Up -- 8. News on Screen: The Vividness of Mechanical Immortality -- 9. Remote Kinships: The Geography of the Expeditionary Film -- 10. Primitive Mating Rituals: The Color Wheel of the Racial Adventure Film -- 11. Nightmare Pictures: The Quality of Gruesomeness -- 12. Classical Hollywood Cinema: The World According to Joseph I. Breen -- App. 1. The Text of the Production Code -- App. 2. Particular Applications of the Code and the Reasons Therefore [Addenda to 1930 Code] -- App. 3. Amendments -- App. 4. The Critical and Commercial Hits of 1930-1934
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