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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Men's magazines"”.
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MEN'S MAGAZINES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY IN TAIWAN
… and how masculinities are constructed in men's magazines in Taiwan. Methodologically, this study sees in-depth interviews, content analysis, and semiotic analysis as complementary methods in the study of construction of masculinity in Taiwan. Results of the interviews showed that multiple …
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Fashion Advertising, Men’s Magazines, and Sex in Advertising: A Critical-Interpretive Study
This study examines sexualized portrayals of women in fashion advertising found in metro-sexual men's magazines as visual rhetoric. Historically, studies on sexual images of women in advertising have focused on content analyses of these images and how they affect women. This study asks how …
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Staging Modernism
… of the bachelor and his pad in American men's magazines from the mid-twentieth century. During this period, magazines such as Playboy, Escapade and Rogue created features on modern living to reassure an independent and affluent man that a dwelling with style and taste would ensure a happy …
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The space between : discursive constructions of masculinity in contemporary South African men's lifestyle magazines
… of masculinities by contemporary South African men's lifestyle magazines, and examines the extent to which they are simply mainstream promulgators of 'old school' patriarchy and soft porn, or the ways in which they offer new and complex models of modem masculinity. The thesis further examines …
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Sexually explicit representations and their significance in late modern Western culture: A critical appraisal.
… the representation of male sexuality in men's magazines and of female sexuality in popular media and subcultural forms. Specific instances are taken to investigate the applicability of widely used concepts such as 'transgression', 'objectification' and 'pornography' itself, and to pursue …
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Between Edge and Elite: Niche Fashion Magazines, Producers and Readers
This thesis examines contemporary niche fashion magazines and uses as a case study an ethnographic investigation of a niche fashion magazine and its producers and readers. Fashion magazines are instrumental not only in helping readers make sense of, understand and consume fashion; they are …
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The rise of the ‘new’ lad in men’s lifestyle magazines : an analysis of GQ front covers throughout the last five decades
… but more specifically, with how a particular men’s lifestyle magazine, GQ, has changed its way of representing masculine identity through the last five decades. By studying the design as well as the content of the magazine front covers, a semiotic analysis is carried out in order to reveal …