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The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film 1928-1942
The Wages of Sin Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film 19281942
Author: Lea Jacobs
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," "gol...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520207905
ISBN-10: 0520207904
Publication Date: 6/1/1997
Pages: 202
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
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