MOVIE · 2018
Hollywood, No Sex Please!
Documentary56 min
American movies have long been comfortable with violence and uneasy about sex, and this film traces that contradiction from early Hollywood through the Hays Code to the cultural shift of the 1960s. Film scholar Linda Williams and director Adrian Lyne help frame a history of sexual mores in the United States as reflected on screen, connecting studio-era restrictions, religious conservatism, and changing ideas about what mainstream cinema could show. Using clips, archival figures, and critical commentary, it follows how Hollywood turned eroticism into a recurring battleground between censorship and popular entertainment.
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