Stars, Fans, and Consumption in the 1950s: Reading Photoplay by Sumiko Higashi

Stars, Fans, and Consumption in the 1950s: Reading Photoplay

Sumiko Higashi

312 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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As the leading fan magazine in the post-war era, Photoplay constructed female stars as social types who embodied a romantic and leisured California lifestyle. Addressing working and lower-middle class readers who were prospering in the first mass ...

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