"The Dame in the Kimono" is a twofold wonder: It is an excellent resource and a highly entertaining read. This revision of the 1991 first edition chronicles the 33-year battle over Hollywood's ...

In 1930, Hollywood teamed up with the Catholic Church. The result was the Production Code, a document that dictated what movies could and could not depict.

The book examines films with queer subtexts made under the Hays Code, the infamous guidelines that forced filmmakers to ...

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 ...

Culture in America is changing, and people are being more open about their dislike for a lot of the things that Hollywood has been doing. Disney would gleefully announce they were gender-swapping ...

The most exciting time in Hollywood was arguably the ephemeral period before the stingy rules implemented by the industry. Before the adoption of the Hays Code, the guideline that major studios ...

In the 1930s, the infamous Hays Code came to Hollywood, a conservative set of motion picture guidelines that outlawed American films from featuring anything deemed lewd, crude, explicit, or—of ...