The Hayes Code and the Rise of Film Criticism

What is the American equivalent? The MPAA. Production Code Administration (PCA). -A set of self-regulating guidelines that dictated American film content ... The Hays Code restricted the content seen in movies between 1934 and 1968. Here's how it affected Hollywood, and why it was ultimately ... Betty Boop & the Hays Code The Hays Code of 1934 was the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines. It was first published in ... The Production Code Administration (PCA) was established by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) in 1934 to enforce the Motion ... To skirt the guidelines, “lines were rewritten, dishabille scenes adroitly shuffled, and anatomies piquantly draped.” Other films used these and other ... For more than three decades, the code applied rigid moral scrutiny to films, banning everything from interracial dating to "lustful kissing. The Code The Code required that no film should "lower the standards of those. The Hays Code is a set of rules and guidelines that Hollywood films were made to follow between the early 1930s and late 1960s. 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 ... The Code included a wide range of restrictions on items like nudity, obscenities, ridicule of religion, and “lustful kissing.” Evil characters ...