Ah, livejournal. How I miss you when I go, immersed in the depths of homework and PMS and self-absorbed neurotic navel-gazing. What else have I been up to, you ask
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Putting on my film major cap for a minute, Design for Living is not pre-code, since it was made in 1933, and the code was put in place in 1930. It wasn't enforced until 1934, though, so that explains the sex in plain sight. I'd like to see that movie sometime, it sounds fun.
I'd like to see that mix, if you're willing to post it. It could remind us why we're so excited about Obama.
Well, okay, not technically pre-Code, but the book I was reading, Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood (which is actually where I got the idea to watch Design for Living in the first place, and is fun to read in part because the author has huge crushes on all the actresses, particularly Norma Shearer) refers to the talkies between 1929 and 1934 as "pre-Code," maybe more as an artistic distinction than a strictly historical one, and it made sense as a way to categorize this film for me in terms of content. "Pre-Code-Enforcement," perhaps. Anyway, it was a totally fun movie. I'd never seen a Miriam Hopkins film before, and she was pretty groovy. Maybe I can get it out of the library over spring break.
Hmm...I might have time this weekend to do some music uploading. I do so love putting those things together.
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I'd like to see that mix, if you're willing to post it. It could remind us why we're so excited about Obama.
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Hmm...I might have time this weekend to do some music uploading. I do so love putting those things together.
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