[Commlist] Star Attractions: Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom

We are very pleased to announce the publication of our edited 
collection/Star Attractions: Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and 
Global Fandom/, which has been nominated for the 2020 SCMS Best Edited 
Collection prize.

During Hollywood’s “classic era", from the 1920s to 1950s, roughly 
twenty major fan magazines were offered each month at American 
newsstands and abroad. These publications famously fed fan obsessions 
with celebrities such as Mae West and Elvis Presley. Film studies 
scholars often regard these magazines with suspicion; perhaps due to 
their reputation for purveying scandal and gossip, their frequent 
mingling of gushing tone and blatant falsehood.

Looking at these magazines with fresh eyes and treating them as primary 
sources, the contributors of this collection provide unique insights 
into contemporary assumptions about the relationship between fan and 
star, performer and viewer. In doing so, the collection reveals the 
magazines to be a huge and largely untapped resource on a wealth of 
subjects, including gender roles, appearance and behavior, and national 
identity.

https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781609386733/star-attractions


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