Inside the Hollywood fan magazine : a history of star makers, fabricators, and gossip mongers /

Inside the Hollywood fan magazine : a history of star makers, fabricators, and gossip mongers / / Anthony Slide.

"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...

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ProQuest (Firm)
Slide, Anthony.
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ProQuest (Firm)
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:x, 281 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • The birth of the fan magazine
  • The pioneering writers
  • James R. Quirk and Photoplay
  • The studio mouthpiece
  • The fan magazine as a literary outlet
  • New writers, new publishers, new horizons
  • The golden age of the fan magazine
  • Gossip, scandal, and innuendo
  • The 1950s and the influence of television
  • The 1960s
  • Ms. Rona
  • The People generation
  • The end of the line and a new beginning.

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