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Adapting Middlebrow Taste to Sell Stars, Romance, and Consumption: Early Photoplay

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Sumiko Higashi
Journal: Feminist Media Histories
Feminist Media Histories (2017) 3 (4): 126–161.
https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2017.3.4.126
Published: 01 October 2017
... Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2017 advertising celebrity female fans middlebrow culture Photoplay social classes While publishing stories about the stars as well as storyizations of films, Photoplay broadened its appeal...
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“It's Your Face That Is Carrying You Through!”: Class, Gender, and Celebrity in Nancy Astor's 1919 Campaign for Parliament

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Laura E. Nym Mayhall
Journal: Feminist Media Histories
Feminist Media Histories (2016) 2 (4): 64–83.
https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2016.2.4.64
Published: 01 October 2016
... face that is carrying you through!” figures nowhere in discussions of women's entry into formal political life there. Astor's rejoinder, “No, it's the heart behind it,” points to a tension in her candidacy and subsequent political career that is characteristic of modern celebrity: between...
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