1st Edition

Mapping the Magazine Comparative studies in magazine journalism

Edited By Tim Holmes Copyright 2008
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

The media and more recently journalism have provided rich areas of study for many years but magazines, perhaps the most prolific single medium, have been largely ignored. Mapping The Magazine aims to redress the balance with an unprecedented collection of original, scholarly, detailed but wide-ranging examinations of the magazine form. Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches and a wealth... Read more

1. GUEST EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION  Tim Holmes

ARTICLES

2. Why Should They Care? The Relationship of Academic Scholarship to the Magazine Industry  Sammye Johnson

3. Pornography For Women, Or What They Don’t Show You In Cosmo!  Clarissa Smith

4. New Sexism? Readers’ Responses to the use of Irony in Men’s Magazines  Bethan Benwell

5. Before Cosmopolitan: The Girl in German Women Magazines in the 1920s  Nina Sylvester

6. Documenting Kate Moss: Fashion Photography and the Persistence of Photojournalism  John Hartley

7. Global Players, Émigrés, And Zeitgeist Magazine Design and the interrelation between the US and Germany  Patrick Roessler

8. Johannesburg Lunch-Hour 1951-1963: The emergence and development of the humanist photographic essay in Drum magazine  Darren Newbury

9. Consumer Magazines In South Africa And Israel: Toward a Socio-Semiotic Approach to Magazine Research  Sonja Narunsky-Laden

10. The Changing Face Of Women’s Magazines In Russia  Sian Stephenson

11. The Rise Of The Gossip Press In Spain  Manuela Bueno, María Luisa Cárdenas and Lola Esquivias

12. Customer Magazines: The Rise of ‘Glossies’ as Brand Extensions  Lynda Dyson

13. ‘Everything Louder Than Everything Else’: The Contemporary Metal Music Magazine and its Cultural Appeal  Andy R Brown

14. Nineteenth-Century Popular Science Magazines: Narrative, and the Problem of Historical Materiality  James Mussell

15. Magazine Exceptionalism: The Concept, The Criteria, The Challenge  David Abrahamson

Biography

Tim Holmes is the course co-ordinator of the Postgraduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism at Cardiff University and founder of the Mapping The Magazine series of conferences.