The Hays Code Censorship and Resistance in Hollywood

The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by ... The Hays Code, officially known as the Motion Picture Production Code, was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content in films. The Motion Picture Production Code. December, 1956. Pages 1-16. The Motion Picture Production Code, or the Hays Code, governed US film content from 1934 to 1968, limiting topics and dictating traditional ... The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by ... The point of “Trainwreck,” starting with the title, is that a sexually self-determined woman can wind up a mess. It's that it is pre-enforcement of the Production Code. What Pre-Code movies are are movies that violate one or more of the statutes listed. Hays. The code was created to avoid a code of external censorship being imposed on movie production given the contemporary social climate. The ... Strange rules in old Hollywood outlined how men and women could interact, forbid dancing, and even limited funny portrayals of religious figures. The Code's rules were puritanical and severely limiting. The "Don'ts" stated that sex, drugs, and nudity were simply not allowed.