Eiga Stars :: Portraits of Japanese Divas in Fan Magazines of the 1950s
The Japanese film-going public was as movie mad as any of their counterparts in the U.S., England, or France., with a healthy film publications industry that rivaled any other. According to the 1937 Cinema Yearbook of Japan, over fifty film-specific magazines were being published every year, each categorized into various sub-groups such as “Magazines for Businesses,” “Magazines for Education,” or “Magazines for Amusement,” (with the latter further separated by target audiences including “the educated class,” “young people,” and “cine-investigators.” ) Some titles, like the scholarly Eiga Hyoron (Film Critic) or Eiga Bunka (Film Culture), were targeted at Japan’s growing film-studies movement, while others, like the venerated Kinema Jumpo (Motion Picture Times), combined aesthetic scholarship, director profiles, trade news, and even technical and educational articles. ..read more
December 13, 2011, 12:03pm
