--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Lawrence Coates"
<coatesl@...> wrote:
>
> I've heard that all the drinking, at least in the
movie versions of
The Thin Man, was a
> substitute for the sex that would have been censored
out.
>
Lawrence, what do you know about censorship (self-imposed,
implicit or overtly enforced) in the pulps of the twenties
and thirties? That's something I've often wondered about. As
some here know, I have a sweet tooth for the cruder forms of
the pulps (not just crime pulps) and sometimes I wonder how
those writers (Bellem, for example, and not only in the spicy
pulps) got away with publishing certain things that more
respectable American novelists couldn't say and that American
film-makers absolutely could not show or sometimes even
suggest.
Best,
mrt
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