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About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...

Despite only lasting four short years from 1930 to 1934, the pre-code era of Hollywood’s Golden Age produced films that pushed the boundaries of cinema and storytelling, even by today’s standards.

While Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” celebrated Hollywood, his epic “Babylon” bemoans its demise — or, at least, one period of its demise, when the silent era gave way to sound and pre-Code Hollywood ...