The Hayes Code and Its Impact on Film Noir and Crime Dramas

The Hays Code came into effect, directors were no longer free, but then they became decidedly creative in telling what they needed to tell. The extant versions of the Code vary somewhat in typo- graphical details, layout, word choice, and arrangement of the text. Some omit the philosophical passages ... For more than three decades, the code applied rigid moral scrutiny to films, banning everything from interracial dating to "lustful kissing. What movies were improved by The Hayes Code? ... The Hays Code spelled out acceptable and unacceptable content for motion pictures produced for a ... The Hays Code, officially known as the Motion Picture Production Code, was a set of industry moral guidelines that governed the production of films in the ... Hays (Garden. City, N.Y., 1955), 439-42. Histories of the Production Code vary on its authorship. See Paul W. Facey, The Legion of Decency: A Sociolog- ical ... The Motion Picture Production Code, or the Hays Code, governed US film content from 1934 to 1968, limiting topics and dictating traditional ... 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 ... The Catholic-pushed Motion Picture Production Code (AKA the Hays Code) came to define American cinema through both its limits and its loopholes for decades. Hays. The code was created to avoid a code of external censorship being imposed on movie production given the contemporary social climate. The ...