Hollywood V. Hard Core; How the Struggle Over censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry
by: Lewis, Jon

Hardcover. NY, New York University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 376 pages. "When it comes to censorship in Hollywood, the bottom line is the ticket line. That's the central message in Jon Lewis's provocative and insightful investigation of the movie industry's history of self-regulation....Lewis shows that Hollywood films are a triumph of commerce over art, and that the film industry has consistently usedinternal censorship and government-industrial collusion to guarantee that its cash flow is never seriously threatened." -- The New York Times Book Review"...an accomplished, comprehensive, and provocative new history of censorship and the American film industry...And what of the perennial tussles between politicos and the film industry? All show business,suggests Lewis, make-believe veiling the real power structure that has nothing to do with morals, let alone art (it would be interesting to get his take on the recent marketing brouhaha and its relationship to the recent threatened actors and writers strikes). A staggering saga worthy itself of a Hollywood movie, Hollywood v. Hardcore is filmhistory at its most illuminating and intense." Clean copy.