List of film periodicals

Film journals and magazines are an important (mass) medium of film criticism. In contrast to discussions of individual films, for example, in newspapers, or the simple description or executive summaries in a movie program booklet on the one hand and purely academic film studies books on the other hand, they allow the connection of dealing with individual films with fundamental considerations to the medium film and his commentaries, production and reception conditions on current developments in the industry.

Development of the film press

Federal Republic of Germany

The German film press was coined in the Federal Republic for many years heavily on the commitment of major Christian churches. The Catholic movie service for young people (now filmdienst ) and the Evangelical movie watchers (now epd Film ) discussed almost all the detail in the cinemas coming movies and made ​​recommendations that strongly oriented up in the 1970s to youth protection ideas and Christian morality. On the summary short reviews on the film based service, the lexicon of international film, the standard work in German-speaking countries. In addition to the confessional film press, there have been attempts to establish an independent churches of the film press, such as film criticism, but had to give up sooner or later because of financial problems.

Since the 1970s represented filmdienst and epd film not only youth welfare requirements as cultural critique interests and have grown to become the leading German film magazines.

Since the 90s, a number of independent film magazines has developed, which were founded by filmmakers or film journalists. The journals cover a wide range of perspectives and viewpoints on the German and international film. They have broken away from the traditional journalistic genres ( criticism, feature, etc.) and devote themselves in interviews, essays and other forms of text the filmmaking process step and the film- theoretical classification of films.

Austria

The first Austrian film magazine was founded by Edmund Porges Cinematograph Rundschau and appeared from 1907 to 1917 (her successor was the Cinema -Rundschau, which appeared from 1917 to 1922 and was also published by Edmund Porges ), initially every other week, starting in 1911 weekly. From 1908, in addition to the Austrian comet appeared, also initially biweekly and from 1911 until its renaming in Cinema Journal ( 1919-1939 ) to the 468th edition weekly. With the exception of Paimann 's film lists that appeared (with interruptions ) from 1916 to 1965 a week, were the rest of the magazine founded by the monarchy of shorter life spans, between one and five years. The magazines were directed at that time mainly to professional audience - especially to cinema owners, rental and sales companies - and had their priorities in reporting on economic, technical, political and social aspects, as well as announcements of films, address directories and listings. Film descriptions were in this early stage of film journalism usually not critical and positive, on the one hand, as many leaves in the hands of film associations (Association of Cinema Owners, Association of Cinema industrialists etc. ) were and as their " official organ " acted, on the other since had to face up to the 1920s strong hostility from the civil society and the theater industry, the film industry. Such, some existence -threatening, hostile, and boycotts, did not want to abet with critical reporting on the quality of film production. Nevertheless, in the First Republic emerged gradually popular magazines, not least because the film had long since become a mass medium and the differentiation and strong competition in the film industry drew more attention to quality criteria. As one of the first leaves was The Film Week (1913-1918) in this direction. In this weekly film magazine texts of well-known journalists such as Egon Friedell and Georg Lukács published.

With the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany almost all film magazines had to be set, only selected sheets could be continued until 1945 under the direct control of the new rulers.

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