Cut: The Unseen Cinema Paperback - Baxter Phillips
Cut: The Unseen Cinema Paperback - Baxter Phillips
This book opens the doors on what's been left on the cutting room floor -- and was deleted from your favorite movies -- ranging from Dr. Strangelove to ClockWork Orange and more...Censored by Hollywood modesty codes...sabotaged, politics and titillation....cut on violence and in retreat...Censorship began with the creation of the cinema in 1890-'s according to this author...a flash of thigh and hidden hair in the Can Can...the dancing of the whirling veils of Salome to the first keyhole shot for peeping toms back in 1913-- a harem in Man Woman and Marriage...coy undraping of nymphs....wow was the old Hollywood wild...it's a great book...from black and white photos to classics like Emmanuelle which is known for its erotica to Flash Gordon and it's rip off FLESH GORDON.
A few small tears to the dust jacket.