PRE-CODE is back. For the third time in less than five years, the UCLA Film & Television Archive has come up with a series devoted to this most exciting era of American film, a time when movies were ...
Today's Hollywood actresses frequently lament the lack of juicy roles. Often, all but the biggest stars are relegated to playing appendages to men or flashing their own appendages for publicity. If ...
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, ...
In this blistering follow-up to The Viral Underclass, journalist Thrasher lays siege to the politics of “representation,” wherein members of marginalized groups are given Continue reading » The War ...
"Complicated Women"? It sounds so redundant. But the documentary, based on a book by the same name, is about a special breed of complicated women, those portrayed in Hollywood movies of an enlightened ...
From '80s horror movies to a series of 1930s pre-code films, the Hollywood Theatre has something for everyone this October ...
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 ...