Stars, Fan Magazines and Audiences

Tamar Jeffers McDonald is Professor of Film History, and Dean of the School of Art and Media, at the University of Brighton Lies Lanckman is a Senior Lecturer in Film at UWE Bristol Sarah Polley is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Kent

• IntroductionSection One: Single Magazine IssuesSection IntroductionNever 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 KingMid-century masculinities: presentation as subtext in Photoplay January 1955 - Lisa HoodDorothy Dandridge the Invisible Star: racial segregation in Hollywood fan magazines in the 1950s - Cathy Lomax Section Two: Fan Magazines and Regular ContentsSection IntroductionTyrone Power: International ‘Cover Boy’ - Gillian KellyLeafing Men and Ladies: Fan Magazines and Reading Strategies - Sarah PolleyA Star is Drawn: Media Hybridity and Ordinary Cinephilia in ‘La Passion de Dora’ - Dominic ToppWielding the Scissors: industry politics and play in movie magazines, 1933-34 - Tamar Jeffers McDonald Section Three: Fan Magazines and Related PublicationsIntroductionUniversal 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 - María Paz Peirano and Claudia BossayThe Silver Screen and the Golden Land: Hollywood and ‘hereness’ in the pages of Film- Nayes (1936-1938) - Lies LanckmanList of FiguresBiographical NotesIndex

Stars, Fan Magazines and Audiences is a highly engaging volume that reflects the newest trends in scholarship on fan magazine and stardom. Combining the concerns of film history with those of periodical studies, the book shifts our understanding of fan magazines: rather than simply historical sources, here they are treated as material objects, worthy of study in their own right.