The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) was founded in 1922 as a trade association by the Hollywood studios in order to protect their interests. Because of the increasing concern over government control by government regulation and influential religious leaders organizing mass boycotts, the MPPDA published the Motion Picture Production Code in 1930, which was a loose, self-regulating guideline of what content was allowed to be depicted in films. Because of its relative ineffectiveness in stopping external pressures from threatening the industry after the Code’s publication, the MPPDA then established the Production Code Administration (PCA) in 1934 to rigidly enforce the Code. Although only a list of things not allowed so as not to offend the audience or lower their moral standards (
Trouble in Censoring: Lubitsch v. Hollywood?
Trouble in Censoring: Lubitsch v. Hollywood?
Trouble in Censoring: Lubitsch v. Hollywood?
The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) was founded in 1922 as a trade association by the Hollywood studios in order to protect their interests. Because of the increasing concern over government control by government regulation and influential religious leaders organizing mass boycotts, the MPPDA published the Motion Picture Production Code in 1930, which was a loose, self-regulating guideline of what content was allowed to be depicted in films. Because of its relative ineffectiveness in stopping external pressures from threatening the industry after the Code’s publication, the MPPDA then established the Production Code Administration (PCA) in 1934 to rigidly enforce the Code. Although only a list of things not allowed so as not to offend the audience or lower their moral standards (