The Hayes Code and the Birth of Independent Cinema

What movies were improved by The Hayes Code? ... The Hays Code spelled out acceptable and unacceptable content for motion pictures produced for a ... December 1944 reprint of June 13, 1934 production code. Pages 1-20. Subject Topical, Classification--Motion pictures · Motion pictures--Moral and ethical ... The Hays Code controlled the freedom of Hollywood filmmakers from the 1930s to the 1960s. It changed cinema by dictating the film topics and imagery they could ... The Hays Code, or Motion Picture Production Code, restricted the American cinema industry in the mid-twentieth century. The Motion Picture ... 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 Hays Code was a blueprint for self-censorship, ensuring films didn't cross lines that would provoke government intervention. The representation of LGBTQ characters and themes in popular cinema has been largely stereotypical. The flamboyant, effeminate, and often comedic caricature of ... Full documentation from a selection of 500 film titles in the Motion Picture Association of America Production Code Administration records. The code aims to sanitize movies -- no nudity, suggestive dancing, miscegenation, ridicule of religion, illegal drug use, or objectionable language. 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 ...