Ninety-five years ago Monday – March 31, 1930 – the Motion Picture Production Code, a form of industry self-censorship also known as the Hays Code, was formed, but not enforced until 1934. It reigned ...
Before reading Sick and Dirty, queer representation in Hollywood wasn’t a subject I’d given much thought to or had occasion to study. By the time I started watching films, the Motion Picture ...
The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 codified the moral prescriptions of 1920s conservatism. Today, President Trump has resurrected that impulse — not to police films, but to criminalize dissent ...