By Eric Smoodin, Ann Martin

21 b/w images, 12 line figures, five tables the 1st factor of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the looks of the main major, winning, and often released magazine of its sort within the usa. For its complete lifestyles, the Quarterly held to the leftist utopianism of its founders, numerous of whom may later be blacklisted. The magazine attracted a suite of writers unrivaled in North American movie experiences for the heterogeneity in their highbrow and sensible issues: from movie, radio, and tv employees to lecturers; from Sam Goldwyn, Edith Head, and Chuck Jones to Theodor Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer. For this quantity, Eric Smoodin and Ann Martin have chosen essays that mirror the striking eclecticism of the magazine, with sections on animation, the avant-garde, and documentary to head besides a consultant sampling of articles approximately feature-length narrative movies. they've got additionally integrated articles on radio and tv, reflecting the contents of almost each factor of the magazine and exemplifying the intense second in movie and media stories that Hollywood Quarterly captured and helped to create. In 1951, Hollywood Quarterly used to be renamed the Quarterly of movie, Radio, and tv, and in 1958 it was once changed through movie Quarterly, that's nonetheless released via the collage of California Press. in the course of these first twelve years, the Quarterly maintained an clever, refined, and significant curiosity in the entire significant leisure media, not only movie, and in factor after factor insisted at the value of either aesthetic and sociological methodologies for learning pop culture, and at the political value of the mass media.