Hollywood and the Great Fan Magazines
Author: Martin Levin
Publisher: McNally & Loftin Publishers
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780877950066
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Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine
Author: Anthony Slide
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010-02-26
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1604734140
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the American fan magazine represents a fascinating and indispensable chapter in journalism and popular culture. Anthony Slide's Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine provides the definitive history of this artifact. It charts the development of the fan magazine from the golden years when Motion Picture Story Magazine and Photoplay first appeared in 1911 to its decline into provocative headlines and titillation in the 1960s and afterward. Slide discusses how the fan magazines dealt with gossip and innuendo, and how they handled nationwide issues such as Hollywood scandals of the 1920s, World War II, the blacklist, and the death of President Kennedy. Fan magazines thrived in the twentieth century, and they presented the history of an industry in a unique, sometimes accurate, and always entertaining style. This major cultural history includes a new interview with 1970s media personality Rona Barrett, as well as original commentary from a dozen editors and writers. Also included is a chapter on contributions to the fan magazines from well-known writers such as Theodore Dreiser and e. e. cummings. The book is enhanced by an appendix documenting some 268 American fan magazines and includes detailed publication histories.
This Was Hollywood
Author: Carla Valderrama
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0762495855
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram's celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan magazines of yesteryear. From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age. The shocking fate of the world's first movie star. Clark Gable's secret love child. The film that nearly ended Paul Newman's career. A former child star who, at ninety-three, reveals her #metoo story for the first time. Valderrama unfolds these stories, and many more, in a volume that is by turns riveting, maddening, hilarious, and shocking. Drawing on new interviews, archival research, and an exhaustive library of photographs, This Was Hollywood is a compelling and visually stunning catalogue of the lost history of the movies.
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Star Attractions
Author: Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Publisher: Fandom & Culture
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1609386736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During Hollywood's "classic era," from the 1920s to 1950s, roughly twenty major fan magazines were offered each month at American newsstands and abroad. These publications famously fed fan obsessions with celebrities such as Mae West and Elvis Presley. Looking at these magazines with fresh regarding eyes and treating them as primary sources, the contributors of this collection provide unique insights into contemporary assumptions about the relationship between fan and star, performer and viewer. In doing so, they reveal the magazines to be a huge and largely untapped resource on a wealth of subjects, including gender roles, appearance and behavior, and national identity.
Pictures at a Revolution
Author: Mark Harris
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9781594201523
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Documents the cultural revolution behind the making of 1967's five Best Picture-nominated films, including Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, Doctor Doolittle, In the Heat of the Night, and Bonnie and Clyde, in an account that discusses how the movies reflected period beliefs about race, violence, and identity. 40,000 first printing.
The Rumor Mill
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Author: American Museum of the Moving Image Staff
Publisher:
Published: 1998-12-31
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780764909429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With a well-attended movie theater ensconced in every American town that could sustain one, the 1940s witnessed the apogee of a publishing genre that purported to reveal all the seedy secrets of its subjects--the ultraglamorous stars of the big screen. The fan magazines' content largely focused on hush-hush Hollywood romances, while their lurid covers featured come-ons like "Errol Flynn EXPOSED!" and "Intimate Secrets of Your Film Favorites!" Thirty campy, colorful covers from the American Museum of the Moving Image fill this book of postcards.
MGM
Author: Steven Bingen
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Published: 2011-02-25
Total Pages: 1157
ISBN-13: 1595808930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →M-G-M: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot is the illustrated history of the soundstages and outdoor sets where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced many of the world’s most famous films. During its Golden Age, the studio employed the likes of Garbo, Astaire, and Gable, and produced innumerable iconic pieces of cinema such as The Wizard of Oz, Singin’ in the Rain, and Ben-Hur. It is estimated that a fifth of all films made in the United States prior to the 1970s were shot at MGM studios, meaning that the gigantic property was responsible for hundreds of iconic sets and stages, often utilizing and transforming minimal spaces and previously used props, to create some of the most recognizable and identifiable landscapes of modern movie culture. All of this happened behind closed doors, the backlot shut off from the public in a veil of secrecy and movie magic. M-G-M: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot highlights this fascinating film treasure by recounting the history, popularity, and success of the MGM company through a tour of its physical property. Featuring the candid, exclusive voices and photographs from the people who worked there, and including hundreds of rare and unpublished photographs (including many from the archives of Warner Bros.), readers are launched aboard a fun and entertaining virtual tour of Hollywood’s most famous and mysterious motion picture studio.
Homemade Hollywood
Author: Clive Young
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2008-10-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores fan films, an underground movement of amateur filmmakers creating illegal movies starring world-famous characters, from Batman to Captain Kirk to Harry Potter. It traces fan films from the twenties, when con men made fake Little Rascals movies, to the YouTube videos of today.
