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  • Stars, Fan Magazines and Audiences: Desire by Design

    Stars, Fan Magazines and Audiences by Jeffers McDonald, Tamar; Lanckman, Lies; Polley, Sarah;

    Desire by Design

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Edinburgh University Press
    • Date of Publication 28 February 2025
    • Number of Volumes Print PDF

    • ISBN 9781399505918
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages296 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 65 colour illustrations
    • 641

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    Short description:

    Thirteen original chapters on movie magazines analysing their visual aspects.

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    Long description:

    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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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction

    Section One: Single Magazine Issues
    Section Introduction
    Never the Twain Shall Meet: Touch, Double-Sidedness, and Race in the Pages of Picture Show - Joel Casey
    The Paradoxical Glamour of the Phoney War: Examining the Design of Picturegoer - Carolyn King
    Mid-century masculinities: presentation as subtext in Photoplay January 1955 - Lisa Hood
    Dorothy Dandridge the Invisible Star: racial segregation in Hollywood fan magazines in the 1950s - Cathy Lomax
    Section Two: Fan Magazines and Regular Contents
    Section Introduction
    Tyrone Power: International ?Cover Boy? - Gillian Kelly
    Leafing Men and Ladies: Fan Magazines and Reading Strategies - Sarah Polley
    A Star is Drawn: Media Hybridity and Ordinary Cinephilia in ?La Passion de Dora? - Dominic Topp
    Wielding the Scissors: industry politics and play in movie magazines, 1933-34 - Tamar Jeffers McDonald
    Section Three: Fan Magazines and Related Publications
    Introduction
    Universal Horror and the Universal Weekly: The Visible Invisibility of the Invisible Man - Rahul Kumar
    ?She Can?t Put Tears In Her Voice, So She Has To Put Them In Her Eyes?: A Performance Studies Perspective On Fan Magazine Images And Silent Film Acting - Jennifer Voss
    ?[They charge members] about four shillings a year for the privilege of receiving a photograph and regular printed gossip?: Context, content and form in 1940s British film star fan club publications - Ellen Wright and Phyll Smith
    The Missing Piece: Imaginary Audiences in the Ecran Fan Magazine of the 1940s - Mari?a Paz Peirano and Claudia Bossay
    The Silver Screen and the Golden Land: Hollywood and ?hereness? in the pages of Film- Nayes (1936-1938) - Lies Lanckman
    List of Figures

    Biographical Notes

    Index

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