The Hayes Code A Historical Perspective on Film Censorship

The Hays Code was a system of self-censorship that Hollywood subjected itself to from 1934 to 1968, in an attempt to stave off legislative ... Production Code (Hays Code)The Hays Code, also called the Production Code, was a self-imposed system of regulation that explicitly and implicitly affected ... The Hays Code is a set of rules and guidelines that Hollywood films were made to follow between the early 1930s and late 1960s. What is the Hays Code? The Hays Code specified what content was acceptable and unacceptable for films for public audiences in the US. One of its ... The Hays Code was created to answer the moral outrage by church groups, politicians, and conservative social organizations to numerous pre-code ... The Hollywood Production Code of 1930 and LGBT Characters. Bibliography. Danesi, Marcel. The History of the Kiss!: the Birth of Popular Culture. “The code prohibited profanity, suggestive nudity, graphic or realistic violence, sexual persuasions and rape. It had rules around the use of ... The Hays Code was a set of rules that enforced censorship on the American cinema in response to the increase of public complaints about the lewd content of ... The Code was a set of rules governing American filmmaking that shaped—and in many ways stifled—American cinema for over three decades before it was revised in ... it was eighty years ago today—15 July 1934—that the Production Code Administration, one of Hollywood's most successful attempts to police itself ...