Leonard J Leff

Biographic Data

ID1073772
NAMELeonard J Leff
GIVEN NAMESLeonard J
FAMILY NAMELeff
SIGNATURELEFF L J
AFFILIATIONSOklahoma State University Oklahoma City
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
H-INDEX1

  • Reading Kane

    Leonard J LeffCHAPTERFilm Quarterly1999

  • Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture

    Richard Fine, Leonard J LeffARTICLEJournal of American History1999Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture. By Leonard J. Leff. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. xviii, 255 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8476-8544-6.) Get access Richard Fine Richard Fine Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 164…

  • Hemingway's Genders: Rereading the Hemingway Text

    Leonard J Leff, Nancy R Comley et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1995

  • Film Censorship: Beyond the Heroic Interpretation

    Open AccessClayton R Koppes, Kevin Brownlow et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1992

  • The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s

    Stephen Vaughn, Leonard J Leff et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1991Cited by: 3

    Journal Article The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s. By Leonard J. Leflf and Jerold L. Simmons. (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990. xiv + 350 pp. $22.50.) Get access Stephen Vaughn Stephen Vaughn University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1397, https://d…

  • The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code

    Open AccessLeonard J Leff, Jerold L SimmonsBOOKThe dame in the kimono1990

    The new edition of this seminal work takes the story of the Production Code and motion picture censorship into the present, including the creation of the PG-13 and NC-17 ratings in the 1990s

  • Making Movies Safe for Democracy

    Thomas Cripps, Leonard J Leff et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1990

  • Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood

    PATRICIA FERRARA, Leonard J Leff et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1989

    and is the story of one of the oddest partnerships in Hollywood history, the union of a reticent, overweight Englishman with a flair for striking detail and a penchant for the perverse, and a dynamic movie mogul with a keen eye for successful entertainment on the grand scale. It began in 1938, when producer David O. Selznick agreed to bring director Alfred Hitchcock from England, where he was already gaining widespread acclaim for his 'little thr…

  • United Artists and Hollywood

    Leonard J Leff, Tino BalioARTICLEReviews in American History1988

  • Leonard Leff Responds to Robin Bates

    Leonard J Leff, Leonard LeffARTICLECinema Journal1987

    Irrespective of 'meaning,' [final] shot of sled gives many viewers a rush, I wrote in Reading (Film Quarterly, Fall 1985); does something to them. Those who study Citizen Kane must have been as delighted as I to learn what near-end of this picture did to college freshman Scott Bates in 1941: It was flaming consummation of sex and politics that had been looking for in movie theatres all our young lives. Robin Bates aptly concludes-and I agree-that…

  • Wilson: Hollywood propaganda for world peace

    Leonard J Leff, Jerold SimonsARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…1983References: 1

    (1983). Wilson: Hollywood propaganda for world peace. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 3-18

  • Instant Movies: The Short Unhappy Life of William Sargent's Electronovision (1964-65)

    Leonard J LeffARTICLEJournal of Popular Film and…1981

  • Play into Film: "Warner Brothers' "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

    Leonard J LeffARTICLETheatre Journal1981Cited by: 1

  • A Test of American Film Censorship: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

    Leonard J LeffARTICLECinema Journal1980

    American film censorship is almost as old as American film itself. Not until the inception of the Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency, however, was the content of motion pictures effectively controlled. Offsprings of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Catholic Church, these regulatory agencies influenced the language, tone, and themes of American cinema from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s. Complaints aga…

  • The Drama's Patrons: A Study of the Eighteenth-Century London Audience

    Leonard J Leff, Leo HughesARTICLEEducational Theatre Journal1972