Mapping Movie Magazines

"One of the impulses of the New Cinema History is to bring what was once regarded as a peripheral aspect of cinema culture and scholarship back to the center of analysis. Mapping Movie Magazines demonstrates the value of this strategy by shining the proverbial spotlight on the movie magazine genre. Through a collection of engaging and revealing essays, the discursive richness and variety of these magazines is revealed. Key to the success of this volume are its international scope and historical coverage. 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, USA "Since cinema's earliest years, film trade papers and fan magazines have figured significantly in the worldwide circulation and consumption of films. The fascinating case studies in Mapping Movie Magazines showcase the continuing value of these publications as source materials for historical studies of film exhibition and cinemagoing, revealing how their increased accessibility through digitization presents exciting new opportunities for research and scholarship in the burgeoning field of New Cinema History." - Annette Kuhn , Emeritus Professor in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London, UK " Mapping Movie Magazines is an exciting and timely collection. Framed within a new cinema history that examines the socio-cultural practices of cinemagoing, the collection richly demonstrates that movie magazines are emphatically not a secondary or peripheral part of cinema history but are woven into its very fabric. This wonderful volume opens up hitherto uncharted regions and approaches for the reader and promises to be a stimulating and engaging resource." - - Michael Williams , Professor in Film Studies, University of Southampton, UK 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.