| Show AN At f AMBITIOUS AMBITIOUS' VENTURE Hollywood Quarterly Appeals to i By fly DIGHTON HOLLYWOOD Oct 11 UI iT- iT Hollywood goes highbrow with th the of ot the first issue o oThe oThe of f The Th Hollywood d Quarterly an ar ambitious magazine aimed not at bobby fans but at ot educators tory tors social and others other concerned with the techniques and responsibilities of mass communiCation communication cation as Ha Its It editors editor say tay Th The Tho quarterly sponsored jointly jointly joint joint- ly y by the University of ot California California Califor Califor- nia and the Hollywood writers mobilization and published by the University of ot California press pru ia lIS admittedly an experiment It may never become widely popular the editors doubt that it will Jt U may never make much money although it will cost an Issue but the editors arent aren't much concerned about that either cither They do believe it will be b welcomed on the professional pro proe level by tho those e Interested t d din in the creative and technical l problems probleM and educational l potentialities potentialities poten poten- of motion pictures radio and television Assuming a a. new social responsibility responsibility for those three comparatively comparatively comparatively recent media of ot expression expression sion Jion top screen writer Dudley Nichols reviewing three war films in the quarterly's first issue says cays Perhaps the greatest instrument to create new conscience in lit man mM manis manis is tho the motion picture Films Films' t Learn Lam War ISar Through Nichols philosophizes that million Americans those who did not go to war warL know whatever the know of the tho reality of ot war only through films and sad concludes 3 that already the film tum ha has been ben prodigiously effective for far both war and peace The quarterly dose does not confine Itself however to depIcting depleting n a new role for tho the entertainment indus indus- tr try Its page of ot contents lists such div diverse topics as Are Radio Scripts Literature an M apparently hypothetical question posed and answered by William Matthews Matthew new audience a tI reflection reflection reflection tion by Lawrence Morton on the condition of shock c in which Hollywood Hal Hol lywood found ou d It Itself l after atter the movie A Song to Remember began breaking box office n a highly technical dl discussion of Television and Motion Picture Processes by William W. W Brockaway Brockaway Brock Brock- away and even a bit of ot prose by byan byan byan an actor Alexander Knox who played the tho title role In Wilson Projects of ot Quarterly i iOne One of ot the major projects of the quarterly is 15 set forth in the first issue by Franklin Fearing's Fearing Heroes Heroes He roes rocs Return A Note to Civilians The editors note that in each Issue faue fa- fa sue Bue ue the thel quarterly will attempt to todeal todeal todeal deal with a specific aspect of tho the postwar postwar- responsibilities of the moton mo- mo motion ton Uon picture and radio As n first and and most urgent problem the treatment of ot the returning veteran has been selected Fearing urges that that- movies on veteran civilian situations not seem eem to be be- bea a sales talk for tor torRny any Rny particular type of reaction sen reaction sen- sen romantic heroic pathological path- path logical or folksy Instead he prop proposes ses the th intelligent and imag- imag use of the thc mass media of communication not for tor therapy but ut for education I 1 do not wish to imply says MYS Fearing that motion pictures radio radio raio ra- ra dio io dr dramas or novels can by themselves themselves them- them selves elves solve these problems But they can offer positive and cre- cre creative creative tive interpretations Fearing Fearin professor of psychology at t the the- University of at California In Los Angeles is one of the editors Others are Franklin P. P Rolfe U UCLA C L A associate professor of oC English Samuel Samu l T. T Farquhar manager of at he e U. U of C. C press John ohn Howard Lawson screen screenwriter screenwriter screenwriter writer and Kenneth MacGowan MacCowan producer |
