Henry James Forman Explained

Henry James Forman (February 17, 1879 – January 3, 1966) was an author famous for his 1933 book Our Movie Made Children, which was a summary of the Payne Fund Studies. The book has been described as an "alarmist tome", and was responsible for publicizing the study's more negative results.^[1]

Sources

• Doherty, Thomas Patrick. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
• Jowett, Garth S., Ian C. Jarvie, and Kathryn H. Fuller. Children and the movies: media influence and the Payne Fund controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Massey, Anne. Hollywood Beyond the Screen: Design and Material Culture. Berg Publishers, 2000.

External links

• • Henry James Forman Papers, 1917–1957

Notes and References

1. Doherty, p. 322; Massey, pp. 29–30; Jowett, Jarvie, and Fuller, pp. 94–95.