{"product_id":"confidential-confidential-the-inside-story-of-hollywoods-notorious-scandal-magazine-hardcover","title":"Confidential Confidential: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamantha Barbas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1950s, \u003ci\u003eConfidential\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including sexual affairs, drug use, and sexual orientation, publisher Robert Harrison destroyed celebrities' carefully constructed images and built a media empire.\u003ci\u003e Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e became the bestselling magazine on American newsstands in the 1950s, surpassing \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e. Eventually the stars fought back, filing multimillion-dollar libel suits against the magazine. The state of California, prodded by the film studios, prosecuted Harrison for obscenity and criminal libel, culminating in a famous, star-studded Los Angeles trial. \u003cbr\u003e This is \u003ci\u003eConfidential\u003c\/i\u003e's story, detailing how the magazine revolutionized celebrity culture and American society in the 1950s and beyond. With its bold red-yellow-and-blue covers, screaming headlines, and tawdry stories, \u003ci\u003eConfidential\u003c\/i\u003e exploded the candy-coated image of movie stars that Hollywood and the press had sold to the public. It transformed Americas from innocents to more sophisticated, worldly people, wise to the phony and constructed nature of celebrity. It shifted reporting on celebrities from an enterprise of concealment and make-believe to one that was more frank, bawdy, and \u003ci\u003etrue\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eConfidential\u003c\/i\u003e's success marked the end of an era of \u003ci\u003ehush-hush\u003c\/i\u003e--of secrets, closets, and sexual taboos--and the beginning of our age of tell-all exposure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamantha Barbas\u003c\/b\u003e is a professional historian and law professor. She is an expert on Hollywood and journalism history, as well as media law, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eMovie Crazy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe First Lady of Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLaws of Image\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNewsworthy\u003c\/i\u003e. She frequently offers commentary on issues related to celebrity gossip and freedom of the press to the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 04, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45615423389740,"sku":"9780912777542","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/confidential-confidential-the-inside-story-of-hollywoods-notorious-scandal-magazine-hardcover","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}