Eric Smoodin, Ann Martin - Hollywood Quarterly: Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945-1957
Eric Smoodin, Ann Martin - Hollywood Quarterly: Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945-1957
2002 | ISBN: 0520232747 | English | 417 pages | PDF | 3 MB
2002 | ISBN: 0520232747 | English | 417 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The first issue of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the appearance of the most significant, successful, and regularly published journal of its kind in the United States. For its entire life, the Quarterly held to the leftist utopianism of its founders, several of whom would later be blacklisted. The journal attracted a collection of writers unmatched in North American film studies for the heterogeneity of their intellectual and practical concerns: from film, radio, and television industry workers to academics; from Sam Goldwyn, Edith Head, and Chuck Jones to Theodor Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer. For this volume, Eric Smoodin and Ann Martin have selected essays that reflect the astonishing eclecticism of the journal, with sections on animation, the avant-garde, and documentary to go along with a representative sampling of articles about feature-length narrative films. They have also included articles on radio and television, reflecting the contents of just about every issue of the journal and exemplifying the extraordinary moment in film and media studies that Hollywood Quarterly captured and helped to create.