Star Attractions
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Star Attractions

Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom

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eBook - ePub

Star Attractions

Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom

About this book

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 regarding 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, they reveal the magazines to be a huge and largely untapped resource on a wealth of subjects, including gender roles, appearance and behavior, and national identity.

Contributors: Emily Chow-Kambitsch, Alissa Clarke, Jonathan Driskell, Lucy Fischer, Ann-Marie Fleming, Oana-Maria Mazilu, Adrienne L. McLean, Sarah Polley, Geneviève Sellier, Michael Williams

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. One: “Give Them a Good Breakfast, Says Nancy Carroll”: Fan Magazine Advice Across Time
  9. Two: Come-on Covers and Climb-down Contents: Salaciousness and Timidity in the Movie Magazines
  10. Three: In Search of Lost Fans: Recovering Fan Magazine Readers, 1910–1950
  11. Four: A Spectrum of Individuals: U.S. Fan Magazine Circulation Figures from 1914 to 1965
  12. Five: Movie Magazines, Popular Films, and Popular Spectatorship in Postwar France
  13. Six: A Star Is Born: Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Image in the Romanian Film Magazine Cinema
  14. Seven: Majallah Filem and Stardom in the Golden Age of Malay Cinema
  15. Eight: “England’s Apollo”: Researching Ivor Novello and Divinized Stardom, 1914–1936
  16. Nine: A “Ramonite” in the Chariot: Female Spectators and Ramón Novarro in Ben-Hur
  17. Ten: In Bed with Mae West: Movie Magazine Revelations of the Boudoir as Creative, Training, and Central Scenic Space
  18. Eleven: “Call Me Madame”: Alla Nazimova in the Trade and Popular Press, 1906–1927
  19. Twelve: Taking Care of Elvis: British Fandom in Elvis Monthly, 1960–1967
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. Series List