Thanks to some good luck on eBay, I recently came in the possession of two scrapbooks, one from 1929 and one from 1932. While I’ve been collecting fan magazines for years, these are my first scrapbooks and they provide some fascinating insights in the ways audiences interacted with various magazines. I found the contrast between both of them particularly fascinating.…
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Call for Papers – “Performing Stardom”: New Methods in Critical Star Studies
We are very pleased to announce our first symposium, which will take place on Friday 29th May at the University of Kent. Please do consider contributing an abstract – we hope this will be a fruitful meeting place for scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds. Call for Papers: “Performing Stardom”: New Methods in Critical Star Studies Friday 29th May, 2015…
Ecran magazine, Chile
Hello, NoRMMAs! Today I bring you a guest post by Maria Peirano-Olate (University of Kent), about the Chilean film magazine Ecran, which is partially available online. The Chilean film magazine Ecran, published by Editorial Zig-Zag, was one of the first specialised national publications in its field. It first appeared in April 1930 and was published until 1969, serving mainly as a…
Happy New Year!
NoRMMA (and, seemingly, Joan Crawford), wish you all a wonderful 2015! We are currently planning two research events for the upcoming year, and we hope to be able to share both calls for papers via this website soon. Stay tuned!
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Firstly, a little teaser image of a French magazine called Vedettes which was mostly active during the war years. Recently, NoRMMA acquired a few issues (dating from 1942 and 1943) on a trip to Paris, and these will, no doubt, sooner rather than later make it to the blog. Stay tuned! Secondly, I would like to invite all of you to officially join…
Official NoRMMA launch!
University of Kent people – tomorrow, we will be officially launching the research network in Jarman foyer, at 6pm, followed by a screening of The Women (Cukor, 1939) at 7. Do RSVP if you would like to come along! Hope to see you there!
PUZZLE: Crossword, Hollywood, May 1941
One of the most fascinating aspects of fan magazines is the wide range of content on display – to celebrate this, let’s all try our hands at this little crossword puzzle from Hollywood, May 1941! Puzzle and solution will be posted soon in the Puzzles section of the blog.
RESOURCES: Lantern
As fan magazine researchers, we are particularly interested in digital initiatives which make these magazines – insofar as copyright is not an issue – accessible and searchable online. One of the best resources we have encountered in this regard is Lantern, the search platform for the collections of the Media History Digital Library. http://lantern.mediahist.org/ The website boasts over a million…
Welcome to NoRMMA!
Hi all, This is the blog belonging to NoRMMA (Network of Researchers: Movies, Magazines and Audiences), a research network situated at the University of Kent but open to all scholars interested in fan and film magazines and their position as a meeting ground between industry and audiences.