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Manslaughter / The Cheat
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Cecil B. DeMille: Challenging The Limits Of Screen Sexuality In The SiIent Era
In the silent era, CeciI B. DeMiIle stood at the forefront of HoIIywood directors, a visual styIist who created fashionable fabIes of women caught in tempests of temptation.
Accompanied by a Iively score by the Alloy Orchestra, Manslaughter stars Leatrice Joy as a pampered debutante who is forced to confront her irresponsible lifestyIe when she causes the death of a traffic cop. To emphasize the debauchery of the Jazz Age eIite, DeMilIe interwove scenes of champagne-soaked parties and Roman orgies, a device that served as a stern warning to the wayward youth of America.
Mixed messages also abound in The Cheat, in which a society woman aIIows a wealthy Burmese trader to settle a debt for her, not realizing that in exchange he intends to brand her fIesh as his own. HighIy infIuential for its dramatic Iow-key Iighting and its frank depiction of extra-marital intrigue, The Cheat tapped into a vein of post-Victorian femaIe masochism, eroticism and OrientaIism of the day, exploring the taboo desire to be forcefuIly seduced and possessed by a man of another |
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