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*"Hollywood and the Production Code: Criticism and History”. A one-day 
symposium at King’s College London on Friday 6^th July *

*(plus accompanying free-to-public screenings on evening of Thursday 
5^th July).*

*REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – link at bottom of email*

The symposium will be devoted to the style-based investigation of the 
influence of the Production Code on Hollywood cinema.

The symposium will take in a range of issues concerning the impact of 
the Code on “golden age” Hollywood filmmaking. Part of the symposium 
will also be devoted to a consideration of the style of “pre-Code” 
filmmaking (generally understood as 1930-1934).

_Provisional schedule_

9:30-10am Introduction: Tom Brown & John Gibbs.

10-11.45am Panel A. J.E. Smyth: “History and the Price of Not Giving a 
Damn in the Studio System”; Ian Banks: “/Werewolf of London/ (Stuart 
Walker, 1935) – representing transformation and desire”; Adam Vaughan: 
“Queering the Code”; Olympia Kiriakou: “‘There’s Nothing Like a Good 
Dose of Another Woman to Make a Man Appreciate His Wife’: Adultery, 
Morality and Performance in /The Women /(1939)”.

12pm-1:15pm Workshop 1 focused on “pre-Code” melodrama, /Back Street/ 
(Stahl, 1932) – with Lea Jacobs, Ed Gallafent & Charles Barr (Chair: 
Andrew Klevan).

2-3:30pm Panel B. Kathrina Glitre: “‘Sacred intimacies’: Sexual 
ambiguity and performance in /My Favorite Wife /(1940)”; Martha Shearer: 
“Some Warners Musicals and the Spirit of the Production Code”; James 
MacDowell: “Irony, Intention, and the Production Code”.**

3.50-5.20pm Workshop 2 focused on a comedy post-the PCA: /The Miracle of 
Morgan’s Creek /(Sturges, 1943) – with Lea Jacobs, Kathrina Glitre & 
Douglas Pye (Chair: John Gibbs).

5:30-6pm – Final remarks: Lea Jacobs.

_Two special screenings/the workshops_

The symposium’s emphasis is “style-based” – an underlying concern is 
re-evaluating the relationship between archival research and close 
consideration of film style as historical/critical methods. With this in 
mind, a large portion of the schedule is devoted to two workshops 
designed to facilitate discussion of the Code and its aesthetic impacts 
through the close consideration of specific sequences or moments from 
two films. The workshops will be led by leaders in the field(s), 
including Professor Lea Jacobs.

To enable this discussion, on Thursday 5^th July at 7pm, there will be a 
free double-bill screening of the two films explored in the workshops: 
/Back Street /(John M. Stahl, 1932) and /The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek 
/(Preston Sturges, 1943). The films have been chosen for their wildly 
different tones and generic identities and for sitting either side of 
the much-debated divide of 1934, as well as for their interest as films 
in their own right. /Back Street/, directed by one of the foremost 
directors of “pre-Code” melodramas/women’s films focuses on the 
long-term, committed, extra-marital relationship between characters 
played by Irene Dunne and John Boles. Preston Sturges’s /The Miracle of 
Morgan’s Creek /follows Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), who wakes up 
after a night out questionably “married” (she cannot remember to whom) 
and unquestionably pregnant!

Join us to explore the complex relationship of these films, and others, 
to the Code!

_Registration_: £15 standard/£8 student or unwaged (registration 
includes approx. £6 worth refreshment vouchers; no lunch will be provided)

REGISTER ONLINE HERE: 
https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Festore.kcl.ac.uk%2Fconferences-and-events%2Facademic-faculties%2Ffaculty-of-arts-humanities%2Fdepartment-of-film-studies%2Fhollywood-and-the-production-code-criticism-and-history&data=01%7C01%7C%7C9f6ec9be14994196ecf908d5c0e2f5c6%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=Oprt1bgZcW6PXoDqaaLTLGgFuE5jIVzQiIrqzu2OcTA%3D&reserved=0

-- 
Dr. Tom Brown,
Senior Lecturer & Admissions Tutor, Film Studies,
King's College London,
Strand Campus,
Norfolk Building, N565.
Tel: 020 7848 2018
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/filmstudies/people/acad/brown/index.aspx


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