Archive for June 28th, 2007

The Glass Key

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

The Glass Key – the movie and the book.  I can honestly say I enjoyed both versions—which is not always the case with books and its adaptations.  Coughbloodwork.             In class one of the first things we talked about was the hard boiled detective vs. the Sherlock Holmes-esque detective style.  It became fairly clear that […]

Hays Code/Blue Material

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

In class when we talked about the Hays Code, it reminded me of something I learned last year in a theatre class. I thought it was pretty interesting so I figured I’d mention it here!  Hooray!(?) There was a similar code on Vaudeville performers during the late 19th/early 20th century. Unacceptable content was referred to […]