Beyond the Hayes Code Exploring Hollywood's Censorship History

The Code was a set of rules governing American filmmaking that shaped and stifled in many ways American cinema for over three decades. 1 Provisions of the Code · 2 History. 2.1 Before the Production Code; 2.2 1930 to 1934: The start of the Hays Code; 2.3 Enforcement; 2.4 The ... it was eighty years ago today—15 July 1934—that the Production Code Administration, one of Hollywood's most successful attempts to police itself ... The Hays Code was created to answer the moral outrage by church groups, politicians, and conservative social organizations to numerous pre-code ... The Hays Code was part of a censorship program meant to appease religious groups who denounced indecent movies. Hollywood didn't enforce it too strictly at ... This was a set of guidelines that the movie industry used to regulate the content of films from the early 1930s until the late 1960s. Hays Office was an American organization, headed by Will H. Hays, that promulgated a moral code for films. In 1922, after a number of ... The Hollywood Production Code of 1930 and LGBT Characters. Bibliography. Danesi, Marcel. The History of the Kiss!: the Birth of Popular Culture. The Hays Code, which prevented films from depicting sex or homosexuality, among other things, has no place in today's moviegoing world. The Hays Code, written by a Jesuit priest and Catholic publisher, was designed as a code regulating the moral content of feature films.