Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-245) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Remaking film journalism in the mid-1910s -- Trade papers at war -- The independent exhibitor's pal : localizing, specializing, and expanding the exhibitor paper -- Coastlander reading : the cultures and trade papers of 1920s Los Angeles -- Chicago takes New York : the consolidation of the nationals -- The great diffusion : Hollywood's reporters, exhibitor backlash, and Quigley's failed monopoly -- Epilogue.
Summary:
"For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business--a cutthroat landscape that set the stage for battle by ink. In 1930, Martin Quigley, publisher of the emerging giant Exhibitor's Herald, conspired with Hollywood studios to eliminate all competing trade papers, yet this attempt and each one thereafter collapsed. Exploring the communities of exhibitors and creative workers that constituted key subscribers, Ink-Stained Hollywood tells the story of how a heterogeneous trade press triumphed by appealing to the foundational aspects of industry culture--taste, vanity, partisanship, and exclusivity. In captivating detail, Eric Hoyt chronicles the histories of well-known trade papers (Variety, Motion Picture Herald) alongside important yet forgotten publications (Film Spectator, Film Mercury, and Camera!), and challenges the canon of film periodicals, offering new interpretative frameworks for understanding print journalism's relationship with the motion picture industry and its continued impact on creative industries today"--Provided by publisher.
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