Stars, Fan Magazines and Audiences: Desire by Design

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Stars, Fan Magazines and Audiences

Desire by Design

Edited by: Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Tamar Jeffers McDonald

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, Lies Lanckman
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and Sarah Polley
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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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About this book

Thirteen original chapters on movie magazines analysing their visual aspects

Contents include sections on individual issues, regular features, and adjunct publications
As well as visuals, topics covered include stardom, gender, censorship, nationality, performance, language
Includes detailed studies of magazines from the US, UK, France, Chile, and Poland

Stars, Fan Magazines and Audiences focuses on movie magazines, publications first produced in 1911 for movie fans in the United States, but soon reaching movie fans on a global scale. Bringing together scholars from different disciplinary and international contexts, this collection considers fan magazines as objects of material and visual history.

The designer’s toolkit aided movie magazines in seducing their readers, with visual elements, such as fonts, photographs, and illustrations, plied across both editorial content and advertisements. In this way, each issue was subtly designed to stir desire in readers and moviegoers alike. By focusing on the visual aspects of fan magazines, a key pleasure for readers, this collection provides detailed examples of how visual elements engendered aspiration and longing, thus putting the visual contents of the fan magazines at the heart of every chapter.

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Cultural Studies Genres and Media in Cultural Studies Film

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Single Magazine Issues
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
1. Never the Twain Shall Meet: Touch, Double-Sidedness and Race in the Pages of Picture Show Joel Casey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. The Paradoxical Glamour of the Phoney War: Examining the Design of Picturegoer Carolyn Owen King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. Mid-Century Masculinities: Presentation as Subtext in Photoplay January 1955 Lisa Hood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
4. Dorothy Dandridge The Invisible Star: Racial Segregation in Hollywood Fan Magazines in the 1950s Cathy Lomax Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Part II. Fan Magazines and Regular Contents
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
5. Tyrone Power: International ‘Cover Boy’ Gillian Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
6. Leafing Men and Ladies: Fan Magazines and Reading Strategies Sarah Polley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7. A Star is Drawn: Media Hybridity and Ordinary Cinephilia in La Passion de Dora Dominic Topp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
8. Wielding the Scissors: Industry Politics and Play in Movie Magazines, 1933–1934 Tamar Jeffers McDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Part III. Fan Magazines and Related Publications
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
9. Universal Horror and Universal Weekly: The Visible Invisibility of the Invisible Man Rahul Kumar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
10. A Performance Studies Perspective On Fan Magazine Images And Silent Film Acting Jennifer Voss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
11. Context, Content and Form in 1940s British Film Star Fan Club Publications Ellen Wright and Phyll Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
12. The Missing Piece: Imaginary Audiences in the Ecran Fan Magazine of the 1940s María Paz Peirano and Claudia Bossay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
13. The Silver Screen and the Golden Land: Hollywood and ‘Hereness’ in the Pages of Film-Nayes (1936–1938) Lies Lanckman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274