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Peer reviewedVeitch, Jonathan – Journal of Film and Video, 1997
Examines how Nathanael West's darkly critical text in his novel "Miss Lonelyhearts" was censored, through a series of demurrals and evasions, displacements and substitutions, even repression, to make it acceptable for the screen. Suggests that the resulting script illuminates the momentous cultural struggles underway in 1930s America--in…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Censorship, Cultural Context, Film Criticism
