Inside the Hollywood fan magazine a history of star makers, fabricators, and gossip mongers /
"The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the American fan magazine represents a...
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University Press of Mississippi,
c2010.
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Table of Contents:
- The birth of the fan magazine
- The pioneering writers
- James R. Quirk and Photoplay
- The studio mouthpiece
- The fan magazine as a literary outlet
- New writers, new publishers, new horizons
- The golden age of the fan magazine
- Gossip, scandal, and innuendo
- The 1950s and the influence of television
- The 1960s
- Ms. Rona
- The People generation
- The end of the line and a new beginning.