As more people got their hands on early film cameras, movies quickly went from snapshots of someone sneezing to workers clocking out to full-blown narratives exploring life, love, and the human ...

This week in puzzling online discourse, a subset of Gen Z is looking wistfully back on the era of the Motion Picture Production Code, also known as the Hays Code, a voluntary (well, technically) set ...

American cinema can be divided into three eras of censorship, and William H. Hays played a part in all of them. The first era, wild and sexy, stirred a backlash to young Hollywood that allowed Hays to ...

Now and then, someone gets their back up about the immorality coming out of Hollywood and suggests reinstating the Hays Code, and there is literally no reason to do so. The latest diatribe to make the ...

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‘Forbidden Hollywood’: Pre-Code Flicks to Make You BlushThis set, the second in a series, collects five more features starring loose women, wannabe child murderers, gold diggers, and gangsters.

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...