Cinefantastique

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Cinefantastique (1970–2002, since 2007)
CFQ (2003–2006)

description American film magazine
Area of ​​Expertise Science fiction and fantasy films and television series
language English
First edition 1970
Sold edition 30,000 copies
(approx. 2000)
editor Frederick S. Clark (until 2000)
Dan Persons, Mark A. Altman
Web link cinefantastiqueonline.com
ISSN 0145-6032

Cinefantastique is the original title of a US American trade journal about science fiction , horror and fantasy feature films and television series that appeared in 1970 . From 2003 and until the magazine was discontinued as a print medium in 2006, the magazine was published under the title CFQ . Since 2007 the magazine has been published online with the title Cinefantastique - The Website with a Sense of Wonder .

History and content

The circulation was initially 1,000 pieces per issue, in the mid-1980s it was around 25,000 copies and rose to around 2000 to 30,000 copies per issue worldwide. The magazine often contains several dozen pages of reviews and retrospectives on the films and television series and provides extensive information on, for example, the creation of special effects and production design . The thematic focus of a relatively large part of the booklets published in the 1980s and 1990s were the Star Trek cinema films and television series. The issues were initially published quarterly, with some of them being published as much more extensive special double issues . The magazine was published every two months from 1995 to 1999.

With the magazine and its forerunner, a newsletter of the same name first published in 1967, the editor Frederick S. Clark intended to offer more critical and serious coverage of film productions in these genres than was the case in the USA in the 1960s. As a result, the magazine also reported on negative aspects of film productions, such as screenwriters who had been cheated of their income. This style led to the magazine of some film studios sometimes boycotted was.

After Clark's suicide in 2000 and with the increasing spread of the Internet , sales of the print magazine fell significantly, so that it was discontinued in 2006.

Meaning and judgment

The Chicago Tribune newspaper described Cinefantastique in 2000 as a long-time influential magazine for entertainment writers and industry insiders ("Cinefantastique has long been an influential magazine for entertainment writers and industry insiders."). The Los Angeles Times wrote in 2000: "Small but powerful, it is [the magazine] something like a little David who, even if he did not murder the Goliaths of the film industry, certainly frightened them." (Original quote: " Small but mighty, it is something of a little David that, if it hasn't slain motion picture industry Goliaths, has certainly angered them. ")

"[Cinefantastique] is by far the most useful US fantastic-cinema magazine, being less juvenile in orientation and (apparently) less dependent on the studios for pictorial material, and thus more independent in its judgments [...]."

"[Cinefantastique] is by far the most useful US magazine about fantastic cinema, less youthful and (apparently) less dependent on the studios for footage - and therefore more independent in its judgments."

- Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

"All that ... information - mixed with sophisticated reviews, script analyzes and gore - makes Cinefantastique appear to be an intriguing combination of EC Monster Comics, Cahiers du Cinema and Popular Mechanics."

"All this information - mixed with demanding reviews, manuscript analyzes and blood - make Cinefantastique a fascinating combination of EC monster comics , Cahiers du cinéma and Popular Mechanics ."

- Chicago Tribune , quoted in the Los Angeles Times

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janega 2000
  2. ↑ Oliver 2000
  3. ↑ s. NY Times 2000
  4. ↑ Oliver 2000