BOOKS, FILMS, & THEN SOME: Kim Luperi / Christopher Lisotta / The Divorcee

Kim Luperi (“Pre-Code Essentials: Must-See Cinema from Hollywood’s Untames Era 1930-1934”) in conversation with Christopher Lisotta.
About this Event

A conversation with writer/researcher/content creator Kim Luperi about her Turner Classics Movies book featuring an essential film-by-film guide to must-see cinema from the pre-Code era - a wild and wonderful time in Hollywood history before strict enforcement of a censorship code that ruled moviemaking for decades. Event will be followed by a film screening of The Divorcee, the 1930 film starring Norma Shearer in her Academy-Award winning role.

Kim Luperi wrote her undergraduate thesis on the censorship battle of Baby Face (1933) and never looked back. By day she is a project manager for a creative team, and by night she curates the @precodedotcom Instagram account, pens occasional articles for TCM, and covers classic film screenings at ISeeADarkTheater.com. Her first book, Pre-Code Essentials: Must-See Cinema from Hollywood’s Untamed Era, 1930-1934, co-written with Danny Reid, was published in October 2025 from Running Press and TCM.

Agenda

🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:45 PM
CONVERSATION
🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
FILM SCREENING OF “THE DIVORCEE”
🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
BOOK SIGNING