Subseries XI.1: Film Magazines, 1945-2003 [Bulk Dates: 1970s], 1945-2003

Scope and content:

Magazines listed here are focused on film and are organized in alphabetical order by title of magazine. These include well-known film magazines likeEiga hyōron/映画評論,but also less well-known film magazines likeEiga tenbō/映画展望/The Movie Review.It also includes organ journals like Eiga shinjin/映画新人, the journal ofEiga Kantoku Shinjin Kyōkai/映画監督新人協会.There are also magazines that print scenarios, cover theater, art, and music listed here, but film still features in the title, such asEiga to engeki/映画と演劇/Film and Theater.

In addition to the titles listed here, search the Columbia University Libraries online catalog by the title of the journal for those that came from the Makino Collection and were added to the bibliographic record of titles already held at Columbia. This includes, for example, the post-war journal,Shinario/シナリオ,for which the Makino Collection contains the first issue Shōwa 21 (1946 June ) through 1983. (See call number PN1995.1 .S54).

You can also search the Columbia University Libraries online catalog by title for journals that came from the Makino Collection and were cataloged as new for Columbia. The film magazines in this list include scholarly or research journals and popular magazines. It also includes film readers ordokuhon/読本 and white papers on film orhakusho/白書.

For more on scenarios, see Series V: Scenarios. This series also containsmooks(magazine-like books) that are special issues of film magazines.

Access and use

Parent restrictions:
This collection is available for use by qualified readers in the Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room, C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University. Much of the collection is maintained in off-site storage. This may be retrieved with advance notification only; for further details, please consult the C.V. Starr East Asian Library staff.
Parent terms of access:
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Location of this collection:
300 Kent Hall
1140 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027, USA
Before you visit:
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