the hays code

Censoship and Hollywood have always come hand in hand. Often a continuing topic of discourse in relation to the medium of film


For a period of approxamatley 20 years from the thirties to the fiftiesHollywood commercial cinema was subjected to a rigorous censorship laws.
Several factors attributed to the rise of the production code.
One of the major issues that determined a change in censorhip etHics at the time were a rash of high publicised scandals involving big name stars that were to tarnish the image of the industry.



In the 1930s, film industry executives embraced a strict set of guidelines, or Production Code, that governed movie content for two decades.

explores how the American motion picture industry practiced self-censorship as a strategy for cultural and economic survival to answer growing charges of immorality.
It was a rash of Hollywood scandals in the late teens and the early twenties that helped intensify the ire of local censors and forced the film in...