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

Wed Feb 19 23:20:37 GMT 2020




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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