Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Opening Credits ix
4. Prologue: Hollywood, 1954 1
5. 1. The Victorian Irishman 7
6. 2. Bluenoses Against the Screen 31
7. 3. Hollywood Shot to Pieces 49
8. 4. The Breen Office 77
9. 5. Decoding Classical Hollywood Cinema 97
10. 6. Confessional 121
11. 7. Intermission at RKO 132
12. 8. At War with the Breen Office 152
13. 9. In His Sacerdotalism 172
14. 10. “Our Semitic Brethren” 199
15. 11. Social Problems, Existential Dilemmas, and Outsized Anatomies 225
16. 12. Invasion of the Art Films 264
17. 13. Amending the Ten Commandments 292
18. 14. Not the Breen Office 313
19. 15. Final Cut: Joseph I. Breen and the Auteur Theory 337
20. Appendix: Th e Production Code 351
21. Notes 365
22. Film Index 409
23. Index 415