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Mar 29, 2021
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Safe in Hell: Nina Mae McKinney and the Pre-Code Poetics of Sex, Race and Power

Ruairí McCann

Safe in Hell (1931) is not a movie that is raised too often as a major title of the pre-Code era, and yet when discussing those six years and their frequently frank and complex depictions of the problems of gender, sex, race, money and power, …

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