M*A*S*H Newsletter
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| Title: | M*A*S*H Newsletter |
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| Editor(s): | Corinne Sawyer |
| Type: | newsletter |
| Date(s): | 1983-? |
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| Fandom: | MASH |
| Language: | English |
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M'*A*S*H Newsletter is a gen MASH newsletter containing commentary, analysis, and critique. The first issue was issued in the summer of 1983, and it was planned as a quarterly publication.
From the first issue's editorial:
So many people at the Wichita meeting of the Popular Culture Association [1] were interested in M*A*S*H and so many good ideas were exchanged, both from the speakers' papers and informally after the speeches, that it seemed terrible to let it all begin and end there. Those of us who love M*A*S*H share a kinship some others cannot understand. And an exchange of ideas, not to mention a place where one could be sure of having a hearing of one's own, otherwise unpublishable ideas that won't fit into articles and are too short for speeches or papers seemed like it might be popular with a number of you. We hope the newsletter would be a perfect place for 'printing' those ideas and getting them out there where they can be enjoyed and appreciated (or argued about) by the rest of us fanatics.
Issue 1
M*A*S*H Newsletter 1 was published in the summer of 1983 and contains 4 pages. Some sample articles: reports on the papers given by professors and other acafans at the PCA meeting in Wichita: Anthony Hopkins (Toronto) presented two papers: "Shared Patterns of Structural and Moral Characteristics Among Television Professionals" (a paper that compared the "good guys" like Hawkeye and BJ with that of Quincy and Barney Miller) and "The M*A*S*H Phenomenon" in which he argued that the longer the program was on, the more it lost its political commentary as it moved farther away from the motion picture and the book and, in the end, "sold out to Frank Burns."