Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Frances Marion, Motion Picture Production Code, Premarital Sex
6 Apr 2019
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Mary pickford: first actress in hw to earn 1 million, savvy businesswoman, founders of united artists . Women living large, breaking the rules, age of jazz, flappers, etc . Women were defying tradition, embracing their sexuality (nudity, etc ) Upper and middle class women were smoking/drinking in public, without shane . 20s came to end b/c of the stock market crash great depression . Developed hays code production code of 1930. Hollywood ignored the production code 1924 depression at peak, conservative backlash strengthened. Religious group even threatened that heads of all studios were jews . Head of mppda all films made in the us must get certificate of approval from. Mppda in order to be released for public viewing. Able to enforce production code very rigid and notorious. Specific restriction on language/behaviour particularly associated to crime/sexuality . Married characters show sleeping in separate beds. Someone had to have a foot of the floor.
