“Forbidden Hollywood,” Warner Archive’s made-to-order DVD series featuring Pre-Code films, sounds like good, clean – well, dirty – fun. Pre-Code films, made from the late ’20s until 1934, when the ...

Best-selling author Mark A. Vieira and film historian Tiffany Brannan give a free one-hour PowerPoint presentation on the pre-code era of 1930 to 1934 when Hollywood ignored the lax production code, ...

American movies are filthy and depraved nowadays, sure, but in the years before the Hays Code passed in 1934, Hollywood turned out flicks that make even us blush. This set, the second in a series, ...

Turner Classic Movies Archives has released a boxed set of three movies generally credited with hastening enforcement of the Hollywood Production Code. While Hollywood had known censoring bodies since ...

I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World Crawford, a bassist for the Avett Brothers and “history enthusiast,” debuts with a fantastic, boosterish biography of famous ...