A scene from “Three on A Match,” the first film, showing as part of the Lincoln Theater’s Classic Film Club. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. The movies are full of sex, violence, nudity, bad people ...
The pre-Code era — the period between 1929 and 1934, when American films were not subject to censorship — has gone into history for its sexually risqué films and for its politically daring films. “The ...
From Maude having an abortion pre-Roe v. Wade to Wonder Woman revealing a secret matriarchal world, women on film have been way ahead of the curve fighting for change for more than a century. With ...
"That was the film that brought Mae West to the movies in a big way," said William Patrick Day, a professor of cinema studies and English at Oberlin College. "She had been a vaudeville and Broadway ...