Sex, Sin, and Celluloid: Pre-Code Hollywood
Join me for a monthly film series at the Stray Cat Film Center that explores Pre-Code Hollywood films. Pre-Code refers to the era of Hollywood movies from the widespread adoption of sound in 1929 to the enforcement of the Production Code (a.k.a. "Hays Code") in 1934. Many movies from this period openly depicted sex and sexuality, violence, drugs, criminality, profanity, and other themes that would become heavily censored in Hollywood for years afterwards. Running the gamut of playful and suggestive to lurid and exploitative, Pre-Code movies give us a window into the changing cultural mores of America … as well as just being plain fun to watch!
Before every screening, I’ll introduce the film and provide a few comments, fun facts, and tidbits about the movie.
Stray Cat Film Center is an artist-run, non-profit micro-cinema.
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