American cinema can be divided into three eras of censorship, and William H. Hays played a part in all of them. The first era, wild and sexy, stirred a backlash to young Hollywood that allowed Hays to ...

Now and then, someone gets their back up about the immorality coming out of Hollywood and suggests reinstating the Hays Code, and there is literally no reason to do so. The latest diatribe to make the ...

The post Sex in Cinema: Creative Ways Filmmakers Skirted the Hays Code appeared first on Consequence. After a string of scandals rocked young Hollywood, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors ...

For every country, there always comes a time when it goes through an authoritarian regime, at least once—that is, unless you ...

Two years into his tenure as President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Will H. Hays was in front of Congress. Not for movie-related business, but for accepting and then ...

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 ...

Will Hays was known to many Hoosiers as the "Son of Sullivan," but those in Hollywood knew him as the "movie morals czar." William Harrison Hays was born Nov. 5, 1879 in Sullivan, Ind. After ...

Some Like It Hot isn't just an important film because it's a one-of-a-kind comedy, but because it helped bring about a form of self-censorship that dominated decades of Hollywood filmmaking. Directed ...

Social media companies continued to assert their power over the political sphere this week, with Twitter temporarily suspending the Trump campaign’s ability to post until it removed a clip of a Fox ...