Unveiling the Secrets of the Hays Code Hollywood's Moral Police

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 point of “Trainwreck,” starting with the title, is that a sexually self-determined woman can wind up a mess. What is the American equivalent? The MPAA. Production Code Administration (PCA). -A set of self-regulating guidelines that dictated American film content ... The Production Codes were written in response to plans for the American government to censor films and impact censorship laws on cinema. The Hays Code came into effect, directors were no longer free, but then they became decidedly creative in telling what they needed to tell. 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. Hays Code ... The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures ... A Code to Govern the Making of Motion and Talking Pictures: the Reasons Supporting It and the Resolution for Uniform Interpretation. 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 ... For more than three decades, the code applied rigid moral scrutiny to films, banning everything from interracial dating to "lustful kissing.