Mapping Movie Magazines: Digitization, Periodicals and Cinema History

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Images
List of Graphs
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Movie Magazines, Digitization and New Cinema History
	Magazines, Digitization and Cinema Historiography
	Magazines, the Film Industry and the Cultural Economy
	Authors, Stars and Fans
Part I: Magazines, Digitization and Cinema Historiography
	Chapter 2: Variety’s Transformations: Digitizing and Analyzing the First 35 Years of the Canonical Trade Paper
		The Digitization Process: Post-Production Labor as Philology
		Computational Analysis: Using Scaled Entity Search
		Distant Reading with Quantitative Content Analysis
		Synthesizing Methods and Understanding Variety’s Shifts Toward Film and Radio
		Conclusion
	Chapter 3: Who Knew? Using Digital Trade Papers to Explore Ethnic Programming in American Picture Palaces
		A New Jewish Patronage
		Before Broadway
		Broadway Discovers the Jewish Passover Crowds
		Vaudeville Stars and Sacred Songs for the High Holidays
		Competition for the High Holiday Public
		Methodological Reflection: The Needle and the Haystack
	Chapter 4: Periodical Studies, Intermediality, and Cinema: Film in The Listener
		Intermedial Periodical Studies
		The Listener
		Film Criticism in The Listener
		Conclusion
Part II: Magazines, the Film Industry and the Cultural Economy
	Chapter 5: Gross “Inaccuracies, Misrepresentations, and Exaggerations”: The Motion Picture Industry’s Clean-up of Movie Fan Magazines in 1934
		The Association of Motion Picture Producers, Studio Publicity Directors and Fan Magazines in the 1930s
		Hollywood Discourses: Mainstream Journalism vs. Fan Magazines
		“Inaccuracies, Misrepresentations, and Exaggerations”: Fan Magazines in 1933–1934
		Conclusion
	Chapter 6: “The Great and Important Thing in Her Life”: Depicting Female Labor and Ambition in 1920s and 1930s US Movie Magazines
		“Boadiceas of Big Business”: The Hollywood Women’s Press Club and Female Wage Labor
		“Her Consuming Ambition and Burning Desire”: Joan Crawford and Gender Identity in the Movie Magazines
	Chapter 7: “The Girl Friend in Canada”: Ray Lewis and Canadian Moving Picture Digest (1915–1957)
		Women Editors of Movie Magazines
		Ray Lewis: Genesis of a Character
		Canadian Moving Picture Digest
		The White Commission
		Ray Lewis Versus the World
		Tireless Advocate for a Domestic Industry
		Industry Honors Lewis as Pioneer
	Chapter 8: Drumming up Readers: Zonk! African People’s Pictorial and Films for African Audiences in South Africa in 1949 and the Early 1950s
		Access, Archives and Cinema History in the “Global South”
		Zonk! African People’s Pictorial and African Jim
		The Magazine, and the Film Zonk!
		Zonk! African People’s Pictorial and The Magic Garden (1951)
		“Two Famous Films”
		African Film Production’s Film Song of Africa (1951)
		Drum Arrives on the Scene
		Conclusions
	Chapter 9: Mapping the Dutch Film Magazine Market, 1920–1960
		Pre-War Era: Westerbaan as a Key Figure
		The Cinephile Niche
		Movie Magazines During Occupation
		After the War: A Challenging Market
		Conclusions
Part III: Authors, Stars, and Fans
	Chapter 10: Looking at Movie Fans: On Pictures Published in French Film Magazines of the Interwar Years
		Dreaming of Being a Star: Pictures Sent in a ‘Search for a Star’ Contest
		Being a Member of a Cinephilic Society: Pictures in the Mail Section of Pour Vous
		Pictures of Stars Side by Side with Spectators: The Movie Family Gathered
		Conclusion: They Had Faces Too
	Chapter 11: Between Hollywood and Babelsberg: Popular Cinephilia in a Dutch Movie Magazine of the 1920s
		Running a Movie Magazine in an Underdeveloped Market
		Modes of Interactive Fandom
		Engaging Dutch Movie Fans
		“Do You Want to Go to Berlin?”
		The Dutch Clara Bow
	Chapter 12: Hollywood Imaginaries at the End of the World: Ecran and the Construction of the International Industry from the Periphery
		Chilean Film Magazines
		Ecran Magazine
		Ecran as a Mediator Between Hollywood and Chile
		Hollywood Between Modernity and Mistrust
		Ecran and Hollywood es así (1944)
		Conclusion
	Chapter 13: “How’s Your Sense of Direction?” Using Movie Magazines to Study Audiences’ Perception of Classical Hollywood Directors, 1934–1943
		“Pantheon Directors”
		“The Far Side of Paradise”
		Other Directors
		Conclusion
	Chapter 14: “Coming Attractions”: Tijuana Bibles and the Pornographic Reimagining of Hollywood
		Histories of the Tijuana Bible
		Tijuana Bibles as Bridging Episode
		Tijuana Bibles as an Object and Generic Category
		Tijuana Bibles Go to Hollywood
		Tijuana Bibles and Moral Panic
		Conclusion
Index