Title of Project
The Dream is Gone/ What Cinema Could've Been ... Gender and Sexual Ambiguity in Pre-Code Hollywood and the Motion Picture Production Code of 1934
Division
Arts
Course or Program
Integrated Critical Practice Concentration - Film and Digital Media
Description / Abstract
I wanted to make an ICPC project that complemented both my research and my narrative film. My research focuses on The Motion Picture Production Code of 1934 and how it affected gender and sexuality, implementing rigid guidelines that shaped American culture. I discuss cinema before the Code, known as “Pre-Code Cinema '', a time when cinema storytelling had fewer boundaries to illustrate attitudes and characteristics that were acceptable to premiere on the silver screen. This moment in time goes by unnoticed, which is what the code intended, and what I plan to do with this project is to bring more awareness to what cinema could have been.
