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"Global Movie Magazine Networks powerfully demonstrates the national, transnational, and networked nature of film culture and the role print publications have played in the development of a global film culture. Featuring leading film historians, this thorough and expertly researched volume is a must-read for film scholars and a must-assign for film history courses."—Allyson Nadia Field, University of Chicago
“This expansive collection opens innovative vistas for researching film cultures around the world. The contributors’ richly detailed investigations of rare archival cinema trade journals, fan magazines, pressbooks, and reviews spark exciting new questions for international historical exploration."—Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, University of Texas at Austin
"Kudos to Hoyt and Conway for gathering this amazing collection of essays on the little-studied phenomenon of movie magazines throughout the twentieth century, not only those in North America and Western Europe but also many perhaps less familiar in Asia, Africa, and South America. Along with the wide-ranging introduction and informative essays, the appendix of nearly a hundred magazines digitized and available on the Media History Digital Library website should prove invaluable for further research and for teaching cinema history."—Richard Abel, University of Michigan
About the author
Eric Hoyt is Kahl Family Professor of Media Production in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press and Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries before Home Video. He also serves as Director of the Media History Digital Library and Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
Kelley Conway is Professor of Film in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of Agnès Varda and Chanteuse in the City: The Realist Singer in French Film.
Summary
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This groundbreaking collection of essays from leading film historians features original research on movie magazines published in China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Latin America, South Korea, the U.S., and beyond. Vital resources for the study of film history and culture, movie magazines are frequently cited as sources, but rarely centered as objects of study. Global Movie Magazine Networks does precisely that, revealing the hybridity, heterogeneity, and connectivity of movie magazines and the important role they play in the intercontinental exchange of information and ideas about cinema. Uniquely, the contributors in this book have developed their critical analysis alongside the collaborative work of building digital resources, facilitating the digitization of more than a dozen of these historic magazines on an open-access basis.
