2. The Paradoxical Glamour of the Phoney War: Examining the Design of Picturegoer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Single Magazine Issues
7. Introduction 13
8. 1. Never the Twain Shall Meet: Touch, Double-Sidedness and Race in the Pages of Picture Show 17
9. 2. The Paradoxical Glamour of the Phoney War: Examining the Design of Picturegoer 37
10. 3. Mid-Century Masculinities: Presentation as Subtext in Photoplay January 1955 58
11. 4. Dorothy Dandridge The Invisible Star: Racial Segregation in Hollywood Fan Magazines in the 1950s 75
12. Part II. Fan Magazines and Regular Contents
13. Introduction 97
14. 5. Tyrone Power: International ‘Cover Boy’ 101
15. 6. Leafing Men and Ladies: Fan Magazines and Reading Strategies 121
16. 7. A Star is Drawn: Media Hybridity and Ordinary Cinephilia in La Passion de Dora 139
17. 8. Wielding the Scissors: Industry Politics and Play in Movie Magazines, 1933–1934 158
18. Part III. Fan Magazines and Related Publications
19. Introduction 179
20. 9. Universal Horror and Universal Weekly: The Visible Invisibility of the Invisible Man 183
21. 10. A Performance Studies Perspective On Fan Magazine Images And Silent Film Acting 200
22. 11. Context, Content and Form in 1940s British Film Star Fan Club Publications 219
23. 12. The Missing Piece: Imaginary Audiences in the Ecran Fan Magazine of the 1940s 238
24. 13. The Silver Screen and the Golden Land: Hollywood and ‘Hereness’ in the Pages of Film-Nayes (1936–1938) 256
25. Index 274