Look closely at the Golden Age of Hollywood, and you’ll see the darker, more complicated layers beneath all that glitz and glamour. The era coincided with the Motion Picture Production Code, also ...

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 ...

The Hays Code emerged in 1930 as Hollywood’s response to mounting pressure from conservative critics and religious groups, who accused the industry of undermining traditional values. This backlash was ...

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 ...