The Hays Code A Double-Edged Sword for Hollywood

The Pre-Code Films: Hays Code Censorship and the Ever-Changing Hollywood (Classics of 1930-34) [Cook, Sophie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying ... As more and more cities and states established film censorship boards during the early 1900s, Hollywood recognized the need to take some kind of action. “The code prohibited profanity, suggestive nudity, graphic or realistic violence, sexual persuasions and rape. It had rules around the use of ... And so it was that beginning 15 July 1934, every film produced by a MPPDA member would have to be approved by the PCA before it could be ... 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 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, officially known as the Motion Picture Production Code, aimed to maintain a level of morality and decency in films. The Motion Picture Production Code, excerpted below, spelled out in detail what was and was not permissible in the nation's most popular form of entertainment. The Hays Code is a set of rules and guidelines that Hollywood films were made to follow between the early 1930s and late 1960s. When Hollywood came to be viewed as a place of the dammed and sinful, Will Hayes, a republican and Presbyterian, non-smoker, non-drinker, ...