Pour Vous was a weekly film magazine which existed between 1928 and 1940 in Paris, France. During its lifetime it was one of the most read film magazines in the country.[1]
| Editor-in-chief | Nino Frank |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Alexandre Arnoux |
| Categories | Film magazine |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Founder | Léon Bailby |
| Founded | 1928 |
| First issue | 22 November 1928 |
| Final issue | 1940 |
| Country | France |
| Based in | Paris |
| Language | French |
History and profile edit
Pour Vous was started by Léon Bailby in 1928,[2][3] and its first issue appeared on 22 November that year.[4] The magazine was a sister publication to the conservative daily newspaper L'Intransigeant.[2] Its headquarters was in Paris.[3] It was published on a weekly basis in the tabloid format[2] and was the largest of all film magazines in France having a size of 55x31 cm.[5] The magazine consisted of sixteen pages.[4]
Its editor was Alexandre Arnoux.[2] In the first issue Nino Frank published his first article on movies and worked in the magazine as the editor-in-chief until its demise in 1940.[4] Unlike other movie magazines of the period it published full list of the films played in Paris.[3] It frequently covered news about the Hollywood stars and also, published photographs by avant-garde artists, including Lee Miller and Man Ray.[2] Arnoux creatively mixed the photographs and textual materials to reflect the contrasts between the French and American movie traditions.[2] Colin Crisp was among the contributors of Pour Vous in 1932 and 1933.[3] The magazine also published interviews with leading figures, such as Arletty.[6]
Pour Vous folded in 1940 after producing 603 issues due to the occupation of France by the Nazi Germany.[2][4]
References edit
- ^ Leila Wimmer (March 2014). "Modernity, femininity and Hollywood fashions: Women's cinephilia in 1930s French fan magazines". Film Fashion & Consumption. 3 (1): 61–76. doi:10.1386/ffc.3.1.61_1.
- ^ a b c d e f g Ron Magliozzi (24 June 2013). "Pour Vous: Looking at a Classic Cinema Fanzine from France". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ a b c d Eric Smoodin (Spring 2011). "Going to the Movies in Paris, around 1933: Film Culture, National Cinema, and Historical Method". The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. 11 (1): 25–55. doi:10.5749/movingimage.11.1.0025.
- ^ a b c d "Nino Frank: from Dada to Film Noir". rememberninofrank.org. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ Myriam Juan (2020). "Looking at Movie Fans: On Pictures Published in French Film Magazines of the Interwar Years". In Daniel Biltereyst; Lies Van de Vijver (eds.). Mapping Movie Magazines. Global Cinema. Global Cinema. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 208. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-33277-8_10. ISBN 978-3-030-33277-8. S2CID 216419888.
- ^ Ellen Pullar (2012). "'A star who is not like the others': Arletty's publicity persona during the 1930s". Studies in French Cinema. 12 (1): 7–19. doi:10.1386/sfc.12.1.7_1. S2CID 191492706.