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BEING MODERN ON A SLENDER INCOME: "Picture Show" and "Photoplayer" in early 1920s Sydney.
- Source :
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Journal of Women's History . Winter2010, Vol. 22 Issue 4, p114-136. 23p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- This article examines how Sydney movie magazines connected provincial audiences to a globalized culture centered on Hollywood. Such publications recognized that they had to mediate both the economic and the geographic gap that existed between images of film-inspired modernity and their readers' lives. By promising an insider's view, movie magazines brought the distant world of Hollywood celebrity to Australian readers with a powerful immediacy, and urged them to incorporate this information into their daily lives. Movie magazines offered a seductive image of society in which a woman's fate was determined not by her wealth, but by the transformative potential of personal style and self promotion learnt from movies. These sources allow for a case study exploring the nexus between the global and the local in the construction of particular models of femininity, consumption, and modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10427961
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Women's History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 56552813
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2010.a405412