Doherty: Chapter 5 Flashcards
In 1932 what did Warner Bros. do for the vice film?
Made it an official studio policy – ordering screenwriters to cultivate the vice film
Apart from the film what was another aspect that pushed the vice film
Advertising – long experience had taught studiosthat titillating posters and advertisements Drew in crowds!
What was another “” code alongside the production code that was violated in film?
The advertising code – stretched, sidestepped, and violated,.
What couldn’t be shown in the photograph might be showed in a drawing… with it being legally objectionable
Titles – advertising hook for the vice film. In-house contests.; eyebrow raising come on this might make even the blandest film sounds tantalizing
What is the vintage advertising ploy known as pinking?
To advertise a film as recommended for adults only… No children under… Red flag about sexual content.
“Women only”
What was the name of the cardinal and launched the motion picture boycott that helped bring about the production code administration – and of the precode era?
Dougherty
What is meant by figurative literalness?
Men – focussed on the site of the female form later bear/outlines/nudity.
*** The virile imagination of women preferred a more cerebral kind of vice; violations without needing the details affronting the eyes
** exercising the imagination
Timely detours and do offscreen space could infuse what is on the screen with otherwise censurable material for the female imagination
Oddly, who appeared as the core audience for vice films?
Women! They were its subject, defined it’s limits, and it’s core audience.
What was the fallen woman film?
Woman is a victim of economic or romantic circumstances, forced to make a desperate choice when buffeted by hard times and bad man.
What is the bad girl vice field?
The woman is a calculating agent of her moral decline and financial sense for treats sex like any other business transaction.
Where fallen woman stumbled the bad girl jumped
What were these female voice films grounded in? What reality?
The real life compromises working girls made to get and retain employment. Sexual violation and hard necessity of risking virtue to keep a paycheck.
What does doherty say was so startling about Babyface? – The vice in this film?
It doesn’t just depict face; it glorifies it. Even in an era of economic scarcity a woman always possesses one sure means of ascent.
List two types of vice films.
Falling women and bad girl.
… Queers
