The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942 (Wisconsin Studies in Film)

By Lea Jacobs

Book Overview

The story of the fallen woman was a staple of film melodrama in the late 1920s and 1930s. In traditional plots, a woman commits a sexual transgression, usually adultery. She becomes an outcast, often... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299128849
• ISBN13: 9780299128845
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"