Numerous modern movies have broken free from the “Queer Tragedy Trope” of a Post-Hays-Code Hollywood to radically display ...

For every country, there always comes a time when it goes through an authoritarian regime, at least once—that is, unless you live in a utopian exception. During such times, “authority figures” try to ...

Although the Hays Code and Lavender Scare served as a deterrent to queer representation in cinema, many filmmakers still found ways to include queer themes into their works. In his new book Sick and ...

In April, the film critic and scholar was promoted to senior curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, the prestigious institution in Queens, New York; he was previously the museum’s ...

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 ...

Even after the eradication of the Hays Code, queerness continued to be treated as immoral in filmmaking. In place of the Hays Code, the Motion Picture Association Classification and Ratings ...