The post Sex in Cinema: Creative Ways Filmmakers Skirted the Hays Code appeared first on Consequence. After a string of scandals rocked young Hollywood, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors ...

THERE ARE ANY NUMBER of ways to classify films. You can label them by genre–what’s the best noir, or comedy, or science fiction movie? You can break them down by era–were the pre-Hays code gangster ...

Drama queens of early Italian cinema. But to explain the Hays Code by pointing to the influence of Christianity would be disingenuous. For one thing, the code required that wrongdoers be punished by ...

Look closely at the Golden Age of Hollywood, and you’ll see the darker, more complicated layers beneath all that glitz and glamour. The era coincided with the Motion Picture Production Code, also ...

The Hays Code, developed by Will H. Hays but most notably supervised by Joseph Breen, had profound impact on the world of American cinema through it’s elimination of any concepts that didn’t match the ...