![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas Mann's " Horror and Mystery Photoplay Editions and Magazine Fictionizations " ( McFarland, 2004 ) examines genre editions. ![]() Typically, photoplay editions of the 1920s and 1930s contained stills and / or a dust jacket featuring artwork or actors from a film.The first photoplay editions were published around 1912, and as a genre, they reached their height in the 1920s and 1930s.Sometimes, the spine or cover of the book will note the edition is a " photoplay edition.Less typically, photoplay editions were novelizations of films, where the film script was fictionalized in narrative form." Photoplay Edition " has been surpassed by later, more comprehensive, illustrated guides.Today, vintage photoplay editions are sought after by film buffs, bibliophiles, and collectors.Typically, photoplay editions were reprints of novels additionally illustrated with scenes from a film production. ![]()
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