Mapping Movie Magazines: Digitization, Periodicals and Cinema History

by Daniel Biltereyst (Editor), Lies Van de Vijver (Editor)

Overview

Movie magazines are crucial but widely underused sources for writing the history of films and cinema. This volume brings together for the first time a wide variety of historic research of movie magazines and film trade journals, reflecting on the issue of using these sources for film/cinema historiography and on the impact of digitization processes. Mapping Movie Magazines explores this debate from different disciplinary perspectives, enlightened by case studies from the use of early film trade press to pedagogical uses of digitized periodicals. The volume explores Hollywood’s grip on movie magazines, gender in film journalism, typologies of unknown trade press and movie magazine markets, and subversive Tijuana bibles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030332792
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	03/31/2020
Series:	Global Cinema
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniel Biltereyst is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Ghent University, Belgium, where he leads the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies. He recently edited The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History (2019).

Lies Van de Vijver is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies, Ghent University, Belgium, and co-investigator and project manager of European Cinema Audiences (AHRC), a comparative research into cinema audiences in the 1950s.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Movie Magazines, Digitization and Film Historiography; Daniel Biltereyst & Lies Van de Vijver

Part A. Writing Film History.- 1. “Nobody Knew”: Digital Humanities, Ephemeral Evidence and the Challenges of New Cinema History; Judith Thissen & Paula Eisenstein-Baker.- 2. Variety’s Transformations: Digitizing and Analyzing the First 35 Years of a Canonical Trade Paper; Eric Hoyt.- 3. Periodical studies, Intermediality and Cinema: Film in The Listener; Birgit Van Puymbroeck.- 4. Film Paedagogy in the Age of Digitalization: Film Adverts from Trade and Local Papers for the Importing Asta Nielsen Database; Martin Loiperdinger

Part B. Mapping.- 5. Popular Films and Popular Spectatorship in Post-war France; Geneviève Sellier.- 6. Mapping the Dutch Film Magazine Market, 1920s-1960s; Thunnis Van Oort.- 7. Hollywood Imaginaries at the End of the World: Chile’s Ecran and the Construction of the International Industry from the Periphery; María-Paz Peirano.- 8. Drumming Up Audiences: Movie Magazines, Pictorials, and Cinema History in South Africa, from 1915 to 1969; Jacqueline Maingard.- Part C. Industry.- 9. Gross “Inaccuracies, Misrepresentations, and Exaggerations”: The Motion Picture Industry’s Clean-up of Movie Fan Magazines in 1934; Mary Desjardins.- 10. Types in Type: Genres of Film Trade Journalism and Canada’s Motion Picture Weeklies; Jessica Whitehead, Louis Pelletier, and Paul S.Moore.- 11. Movie Magazine Madness. Mapping the 1930s in Belgium; Lies Van de Vijver.- 12. Intimate Communications: British Fan-Club Magazines and their Readers; Steve Chibnall and Ellen Wright.- 13. Film History and the Neglect of the Adults-Only Sex Film Magazine, 1963-1983; David Church.- Part D. Authors, Stars, Fans.- 14. Auteurs Avant la Lettre? Using Digital Movie Magazine Collections to Study Audiences’ Perception of Classical Hollywood Directors; Dominic Topp.- 15. “At Least a Dozen Joan Crawfords”: Gender Ideology in Classical Hollywood Film Journalism, 1925-1940; Kathleen Feeley.- 16. Early Dutch Movie Magazines and Interactive Fandom; André van der Velden.- 17. Looking at the Movie Fans: On Pictures Published in the French Film Magazines of the Interwar Years; Myriam Juan.- 18. “Coming Attractions”: Tijuana Bibles and the Pornographic Re-imagining of Hollywood; Phyll Smith and Ellen Wright.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Mapping Movie Magazines is an exciting and timely collection on uncharted regions and approaches, richly demonstrating that movie magazines are emphatically not a secondary or peripheral part of cinema history but are woven into its very fabric.” (Michael Williams, Professor in Film Studies, University of Southampton)

“This reader brings what was once regarded as a peripheral aspect of cinema culture and scholarship back to the center of analysis through an international collection of engaging and revealing essays. This volume will be a model for further research, as the digitization of these fascinating materials proceeds apace.” (Robert C. Allen, Professor in American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

“Mapping Movie Magazines reveals how the increased accessibility through digitization of fan magazines and film trade papers presents exciting new opportunities for research.” (Annette Kuhn, Emeritus Professor in Film Studies, QueenMary University of London)