Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press

Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press

Author
Eric Hoyt
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Year
2022
Page
280
ISBN
9780520383708
File Type
pdf
File Size
16.1 MiB

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. 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 Exhibitors 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 ofhow a heterogeneous trade press triumphed by appealing to thefoundational 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.

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