Intro: Pre-Code Cinema

For this addition to our "Intro" series, head of film/video Dave Filipi offers a primer on the pre-code era, a time in early Hollywood when rules around sex, violence, and other controversial elements on screen were made to be broken. It's prompted by the film series The Sound of Screaming, which offers three double features of genuinely creepy early horror films including genre classics such as Freaks and the original Dracula. It runs October 9th through the 31st. For more info, go to wexarts.org.