STORY MAGAZINE

Motion Picture Story Magazine debuted in February. The Moving Picture World and The Motion Picture News also offered interviews and gossipy columns about the personal lives and careers of the stars.

The Rise of the Magazines - Publishers quickly figured out that women and young people made up the majority of film audiences, and they targeted magazine articles and ads to this demographic. The magazines were filled with information about self-improvement and personal image. From the beginning, these promotion strategies met with disapproval; critics held the film industry responsible for creating a movie-crazed culture and a generation of impressionable children absorbing questionable Hollywood mores. But businesses could hardly ignore the enormous money-making potential of fan culture.

This led to Obsession and fan culture.