What Hollywood’s Hays Code Era Can Teach Us About the Warner/Paramount Merger

Paramount's purchase of Warner Bros. is bad, but good art cannot be defeated.
LAist

Feature: New book ‘The Naughty Bits’ gets into Hollywood censorship during the Hays Code

The Hays Code, developed by Will H. Hays but most notably supervised by Joseph Breen, had profound impact on the world of American cinema through it’s elimination of any concepts that didn’t match the ...
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The Universal Classic 'Abigail' Is Based On Was Ruined by the Hays Code

Rhianna Malas is a creative writer and essayist currently living in Melbourne, Australia. An RMIT alum, she has self produced a comic zine, and has written short stories and creative non-fiction ...
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Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On

For more than three decades, the code applied rigid moral scrutiny to films, banning everything from interracial dating to "lustful kissing." It... Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On When ...
Queerty

That time Montgomery Clift, Liz Taylor & Tennessee Williams made one of the gayest movies of the Hays Code era

Elizabeth Taylor, in a scene from the movie “Suddenly Last Summer,” adapted from a play by Tennessee Williams and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Columbia Pictures. (Getty Images) The following ...