The Hayes Code A Case Study in the Power of Censorship

... Code' and 'post-Code.' The 'Code' in question is the Motion Picture Production Code, better known as the 'Hays Code,' a reference to Motion ... The Code's rules were puritanical and severely limiting. The "Don'ts" stated that sex, drugs, and nudity were simply not allowed. The Hays Code, and its enforcement, easily explains the differences in these films, but it elucidates a lot more about the shape of the 20th ... In this episode, we interview three prominent guests to track the history of film censorship and discuss Hollywood's Hays Code from 1934 to ... The Code included a wide range of restrictions on items like nudity, obscenities, ridicule of religion, and “lustful kissing.” Evil characters ... The Hays Code came into effect, directors were no longer free, but then they became decidedly creative in telling what they needed to tell. Movies from 1930 to 1967 were governed by a Production Code. This web site reproduces it and gives examples of where the Code prevented proposed stories and ... The Hays Code was a set of guidelines designed to regulate the content of motion pictures produced in America between 1934 and 1968. 30 votes, 43 comments. i'm about to start a school project about the hays' code and its positive/negative effects on film-making: which ... The film The Gang's All Here features Carmen Miranda and a chorus line doing the suggestive banana dance with five-foot bananas--banned abroad, but embraced in ...