‘Down with French vaudevilles!’ The Catholic film movement's resistance and boycott of French cinema in the 1930s

Abstract

AbstractAt the end of the 1920s and in the 1930s, a strong Catholic film movement emerged in (Western) Europe, mainly targeting ‘morally dangerous’ films. Besides Hollywood films many popular French pictures featured in this black list. Especially after the introduction of the severe production codes in 1934 in the United States, many French ‘vaudevilles’ were attacked and boycotted. This article revisits this (under-researched) key period in the history of the European Catholic film action, focusing mainly upon the Belgian case. Referring to many now forgotten popular French films, the article conceptualizes the public resistance and boycott of these films from moral or media panic theories.

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