Stars, fans, and consumption in the 1950s : reading Photoplay /
The fan magazine Photoplay pioneered the construction of both female stars as social types and fans as aspiring consumers in the first mass consumption society. In the 1950s, stars embodied a leisured California lifestyle based on goods. Addressing working- and lower middle-class readers, Photoplay...
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: |
Higashi, Sumiko
(Author) |
Format: | Book
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Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Edition: | First edition. |
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