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 ...

Old Hollywood movies had to follow strict guidelines throughout the 1930s–1960s, known as the Hays Code. This basically prevented all US films from featuring anything that was overtly sexual or ...

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 ...

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 ...