Hollywood at this time was infatuated with psychoanalysis and flaunted psychological conditions like paranoia and repression with risqué abandon, fixating audiences who alternated contempt and fascination towards its own transferred desires. An styling board audience could live out its deepest-held unconscious obsessions via identification with actors and celebrities who acted as scapegoats -- as they arguably still do -- for their shameful sins.
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