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Some Hollywood good guys.(God, Man, and Hollywood: Politically Incorrect Cinema from The Birth of a Nation to The Passion of the Christ )(Book review)

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God, Man & Hollywood." Politically Incorrect Cinema from The Birth of a Nation to The Passion of the Christ, by Mark Royden Winchell; ISI, 2008, US$28.

THE HOLLYWOOD FILM has been dominated by two eras of political correctness. The first kind of correctness, its proscriptions codified in the Production Code (also known as the Hays Code), extended from the early 1930s to the mid-1960s. It aimed to preserve and strengthen the institutions of American life. The second kind, never codified, and going strong, has had the opposite aim.

The Code decreed, for example, that "The sanctity of the institution of marriage and the home shall be upheld" and "No film ...

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