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Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man. Mick LaSalle. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002.
Mick LaSalle is the movie critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, where he writes some of the more pithy and cogent reviews of films in the country. His journalistic skills--and more so, his appreciation for US film history--are on full display in this study, which is a companion to his previous book, Complicated Women. LaSalle's subject is not the post-WWII man who recoiled in reactionary fear at the rise of feminism, but rather the "pre-Code" male star who thrived from 1929 to 1934, before Hollywood became paranoid about...
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