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Title: Ink-Stained Hollywood
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press
Author: Eric Hoyt
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0520383699
EAN: 9780520383692
ISBN: 9780520383692
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Films & TV, History
Release Date: 22/03/2022
Description: 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 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.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 408g
Language: English
Release Year: 2022

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