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Ink-stained Hollywood : the triumph of American cinema's trade press /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hoyt, Eric (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.