Title:
Forbidden Love and Social Taboos on the Big Screen: An Examination of the Impact of the Demise of the Production Code on 1960s American Film
(With reference to Midnight Cowboy (1969) and The Graduate (1967) in addition to Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967), as well as to appropriate historical and academic sources pertaining to this topic, demonstrate the ways in which the demise of the Production Code in the 1960s enabled previously forbidden topics to be shown on American screens)
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II. Historical Context (500 words)
A. Explanation of the Motion Picture Production Code and its impact on American cinema (250)
B. Historical events leading to the demise of the Production Code (250)
III. Demise of the Production Code (750)
A. Detailed explanation of how the demise of the Production Code enabled previously forbidden topics to be shown on American screens (350)
B. Analysis of how the three films Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, and Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner used this newfound freedom to explore taboo topics (400)
IV. Impact on American Cinema (750)
A. Discussion of the impact of the demise of the Production Code on American cinema (350)
B. Comparison of American cinema before and after the end of the Production Code (450)
Required Reference
Doherty, T. (1999). Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934. Columbia University Press.
Gomery, D. (2005) The Hollywood studio system: a history. London: BFI.Gomery, D. (2005) The Hollywood studio system: a history. London: BFI.