Pre-code Hollywood: Rules are Made to be Broken | Cinema Rediscovered 2022 | Watershed

Pre-code Hollywood: Rules are Made to be Broken | Cinema Rediscovered 2022 | Watershed
Event recording of film historian Pamela Hutchinson and film critic and journalist Christina Newland, in a conversation about the rights and wrongs of Pre-code Hollywood.

Join the Pre-Code: Rules are Made to be Broken dream team, author, critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson and film critic and journalist Christina Newland, for a conversation about the rights and wrongs of Pre-code Hollywood.

They explore the fabulous, and often surprising films produced in Hollywood's wilderness years, when the restrictive censorship of the Hays Code wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.

Pre-code Hollywood: Rules are Made to be Broken launched at Cinema Rediscovered 2022 and tours cinemas across the UK and Ireland (Aug - Dec) Presented as part of Cinema Rediscovered on Tour, a Watershed project in collaboration with Park Circus. With support from BFI awarding funds from The National Lottery and MUBI.

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