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This program looks at the cinematic milestones which prompted these events and the age of freewheeling film artistry that ensued, despite attempts at censorship issuing from the highest political level.
While audiences gape, censors condemn the "evils" of sex on the screen. Hollywood becomes synonymous with sin, scandal, sex, and the silver screen. Movies: Sex Is the Missing Ingredient (02:59)
The Series Includes : Sex, Censorship, and the Silver Screen: The Early Decades | Sex, Censorship, and the Silver Screen: From the Depression to WWII | Sex, Censorship, and the Silver Screen: The 1950s and '60s | Sex, Censorship, and the Silver Screen: The Late 1960s to the '90s. DVD (Chaptered)
Online. Summary. In what many see as Hollywood's Golden Age, the offices of William Hays and Joseph Breen worked overtime to combat sexuality and subversion in American movies. This program examines the products of...
Studying the shifting moral standards that Hollywood, Italian cinema, and the French New Wave signaled—and which the Catholic Legion of Decency resisted tooth and nail—the program features groundbreaking scenes from The Miracle, Baby Doll, Lolita, and other films.
From the modesty of It Happened One Night to the shocking and nearly prohibited use of "damn" in Gone with the Wind to the ambiguous morality of Double Indemnity, the program surveys the achievements of Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Errol Flynn, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, Jane Russell, Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges ...
Sex, Censorship, and the Silver Screen — After World War II, the wholesomeness of American movies faced a tidal wave of change-from outside, as a growing number of provocative foreign films made their way to the U.S., and from within, as car culture flowered and drive-in theaters sprang up across the country.
