Teasing: Mae West 'She Done Him Wrong' (1932)
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English - May 25, 2023 03:00 - 48 minutes - 23.3 MBFiction Arts Books censorship ireland magazines books newspapers television Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Mae West is remembered for her cracking one-liners but she was a helluva writer too. Guest: Dr Muireann O’Cinnéide.
Her sexual persona that she creates in the film She Done Him Wrong means the Irish censors interpret this book as essentially indecent. Aoife BhreatnachOne of the things West seems to thinking about in the novel is: how do you replace that immediate kind of visual vivid iconography with a kind of a linguistic equivalent? Dr Muireann O’CinnéideIt’s really quite a vivid rendering of a particularly ugly, corrupt world in which both crime, politics, money, and sex and alcohol are all very deeply intertwined. Dr Muireann O’Cinnéide
Muireann’s previous censored appearance
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