Unveiling the Hays Code Hollywood's Censorship Machine

The Production Code Administration (PCA) was established by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) in 1934 to enforce the Motion ... 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 ... When Hollywood came to be viewed as a place of the dammed and sinful, Will Hayes, a republican and Presbyterian, non-smoker, non-drinker, ... 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 ... The representation of LGBTQ characters and themes in popular cinema has been largely stereotypical. The flamboyant, effeminate, and often comedic caricature of ... The Hollywood Production Code of 1930 and LGBT Characters. Bibliography. Danesi, Marcel. The History of the Kiss!: the Birth of Popular Culture. We continue our spotlight the Hays Gaze looking at pre-Code films and the Hays Code by looking at the '31 and '40 film adaptations of DR. The code aims to sanitize movies -- no nudity, suggestive dancing, miscegenation, ridicule of religion, illegal drug use, or objectionable language. To skirt the guidelines, “lines were rewritten, dishabille scenes adroitly shuffled, and anatomies piquantly draped.” Other films used these and other ... 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 ...