About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...

The most exciting time in Hollywood was arguably the ephemeral period before the stingy rules implemented by the industry. Before the adoption of the Hays Code, the guideline that major studios ...

Look closely at the Golden Age of Hollywood, and you’ll see the darker, more complicated layers beneath all that glitz and glamour. The era coincided with the Motion Picture Production Code, also ...