The Scandalous Films of Pre-Code Hollywood

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Before the Hays Code, Hollywood experienced several years of wild and scandalous films that shocked and entertained the nation. Come learn with me about these spicy, sinful films and the production codes that tried to control them.

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Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934) by Mark A. Vieira

Hays Gone By: The Proto-Feminism of Pre-Code Hollywood and the Films of Mae West By Daniel Simpson

The Production Code and the Mythologies of “Pre-Code” Hollywood by Richard Maltby

Hollywood, Main Street, and the Church: Trying to Censor the Movies Before the Production Code by Francis G. Couvares

Screenwriters who shaped the Pre- Code woman and their struggle with censorship By Jule Selbo

The Golden Age of Censorship: An Analysis of Marriage and Sexuality Before and After the Implementation of the Code in 1930s Hollywood by Ryley Gregorie

Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934 by Thomas Doherty

Not That Kind of Woman: Censorship and the Representation of Female Sexuality in Pre-Code Hollywood by Alberto Rosa

The Origins of Classic Hollywood’s Male by Frederico Guevara

Hollywood movies and the violation of moral propriety By Anne Cremieux

Appropriating Queerness: Hollywood Sanitation By Shirley R. Steinberg

Speaking in Code by Tim Stanley

That Way: An Examination of Male Relationships in Film During the Hays Code by Jane Knudsen

Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film by Andrea Weiss

Don’t Say It Out Loud: Homosexuality During the Hays Production Code by Jada Ward

Gay Culture, Studio Publicity, and the Management of Star Discourse: The Homosexualization of William Haines in Pre-Code Hollywood by Ronald Gregg