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In the United States, the Motion Picture Production Code, or Hays Code, enforced after 1934, banned the exposure of the female navel in Hollywood films. The National Legion of Decency, a Roman Catholic body guarding over American media content, also pressured Hollywood to keep clothing that exposed certain parts of the female body, such as bikinis and low-cut dresses, from being featured in ...
Film/TV Show Released Scene(s) Island of Doomed Men: 1940 Sadistic floggings of inmates on a penal island. How Green Was My Valley: 1941 A vigorous caning in the schoolyard. Wedding Worries: 1941 202nd Our Gang short subject. The gang is sentenced to an assembly-line style spanking set to a song after they attempt to stop a wedding. Two Years ...
Other French filmmakers considered that profits could be made from risqué films that showed women disrobing. [8] [9] After the Ball (1897) is the earliest known film to show nudity. [10] [better source needed] In Austria, Johann Schwarzer sought to break the dominance of French-produced erotic films being distributed by the Pathé brothers.
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Overrated Cult Classic Movies. Conventional wisdom holds that there are two kinds of cult classic movies. The first is “the lost gem,” a great film that failed at the box office but found a ...
The Handmaiden. From acclaimed director Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden is a period drama set in colonial Korea and Japan. Based on Sarah Waters’s novel, Fingersmith, The Handmaiden tells the ...
American Beauty is a 1999 American black comedy-drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes in his feature directorial debut. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, played by Mena Suvari.
Feminist scholar Susan J. Douglas criticized the show in her book The Rise of Enlightened Sexism for its continuation of a negative female body image, claiming that "it made all too explicit the narrow physical standards to which women are expected to conform, the sad degree to which women internalize these standards, the lengths needed to get ...