6 pages in length. Hollywood may be an omnipotent entity that wields tremendous influence throughout a number of industries all across the globe, however, it is also expected to understand its power and temper the way in which it is used. To give American cinema free reign of content and scope would be like letting the proverbial kid take charge of the candy store: any limits subsequently established would fall by the wayside without benefit of some type of governance. Hollywood's intrinsic ability to sway audiences with its ever-engaging essence is akin to a hypnotic trance whereby the power of suggestion is so strong that viewers are wholly unaware of how their perspectives are being manipulated by propagandist "entertainment" and personal agendas. Moreover, Hollywood's moral carelessness has cast stones more than a few times over the last century, causing ear pricking from both inside and outside the industry and ultimate cries for regulations, a rude awakening Hollywood received in July 1934 that would permanently etch a chapter of American cinema still remembered today. But would a self-censoring film industry do as good a job as government-imposed regulations? Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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it is used. To give American cinema free reign of content and scope would be like letting the proverbial kid take charge of the candy store: any limits
subsequently established would fall by the wayside without benefit of some type of governance. Hollywoods intrinsic ability to sway audiences with its ever-engaging essence is akin to a hypnotic
trance whereby the power of suggestion is so strong that viewers are wholly unaware of how their perspectives are being manipulated by propagandist "entertainment" and personal agendas. Moreover, Hollywoods
moral carelessness has cast stones more than a few times over the last century, causing ear pricking from both inside and outside the industry and ultimate cries for regulations, a
rude awakening Hollywood received in July 1934 that would permanently etch a chapter of American cinema still remembered today. But would a self-censoring film industry do as good a
job as government-imposed regulations? "During that month, the Production Code Administration, popularly known as the Hays Office, began to regulate, systematically and scrupulously, the content of Hollywood motion pictures.
For the next thirty years, cinematic space was a patrolled landscape with secure perimeters and well-defined borders...Hollywoods vaunted golden age began with the Code and ended with its demise"
(Doherty, 1999, p. 1). While some hollered censorship, others countered those conjectures by pointing out the line of moral acceptability Hollywood had been increasingly overstepping under its own regulation
(of which there was obviously none). Under the guidance of Will Hays, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America usurped the task of content control from the government
in 1930 by implementing the Motion Picture Production Code with the intent of determining the moral acceptability of each film Hollywood produced. Films showcasing sex, crime, violence had to
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