Mapping Movie Magazines: Digitization, Periodicals and Cinema History (Global Cinema) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030332799 ISBN 13: 9783030332792

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Synopsis

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. 

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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.

From the Back Cover

“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, Queen Mary University of London

 

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030332799
• ISBN 13: 9783030332792
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 353
• Editor: Biltereyst Daniel, Van De Vijver Lies