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Magnificent Obsession - The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics (Hardcover)
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Magnificent Obsession - The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics (Hardcover)
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In Magnificent Obsession: The Outrageous History of Film Buffs,
Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics, author Anthony Slide looks at
the way film has dominated the minds and lives of film buffs, film
collectors, film academics, and just plain fans of past movies.
Based on the author's more than fifty years in the field and his
personal, up-front knowledge of the subject, chapters provide
unique documentation on film buffs who once created a livelihood
from their hobby, including long-forgotten Chaw Mank and the vast
array of film clubs that he headed and New York radio and
television sensation Joe Franklin. The history of fans and their
fan clubs are discussed, as well as the first and only periodical,
Films in Review, that catered both to film scholars and film buffs.
The histories of several legendary film collectors such as David
Bradley and Herb Graff are featured, as is Hollywood's Silent Movie
Theatre, where film buffs found a home from the 1940s onwards,
sharing it with drug dealers, male prostitutes, fantasists, and hit
men. Magnificent Obsession is vast in its approach, discussing the
entire history of the phenomenon of the film buff from the early
1910s through the present and documenting the manner in which film
buffs have changed--thanks to the internet--from relatively gentle
and kind individuals to the obsessive, sometimes overbearing, and
often self-important film buffs of today.
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