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Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers
Author(s): Anthony Slide (Author)
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Publication Date: 28 Feb. 2010
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1604734132
- ISBN-13: 9781604734133
Book Description
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 fan magazine represents a fascinating and indispensible chapter in journalism and popular culture. Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine 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 later.
