formation and achievement of PCA

Examine the formation and achievement of PCA and discuss that role in the development of cinema production and/or consumption practices.



This essay will be examining the implementation and the achievements of the Production Code Administration. It will be arguing that PCA had a big impact on the production and consumption practices and played the key role in shaping the culture of America. The essay will highlight the operation of PCA as a mechanism for the maintenance of a necessarily predictability in the subject matter of movies in much the same way that the formula of genre pictures. 'Production Code Administration moral, social, and political conservatism interfered with the artistic potential and social responsibilities of the American film by claiming that it was protecting the industry and its workers as a community because it prevented them damaging their own public esteem'(Maltby, 1983, p. 108). Its rigid standards were necessary because l PCA and Catholic Church ...