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Historical Overview of Children's Magazines
… of study, this thesis will examine children's magazines in the United States and the forces shaping them. Children's magazines reflect the country's history and attitudes about youth and yet limited research about these important periodicals exists. This look at the development and publication …
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Popular Magazines in Fascist Italy, 1934 - 1943
The dissertation examines the field of popular magazines in 1930s Italy, by first examining the broad field of magazine production under Fascism and then undertaking three case studies of individual magazines – L’Avventuroso (1934 – 1943), Omnibus (1937 – 1939), and Grazia (1938 –) – in order to …
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Fire modeling for cook-off in ordnance magazines
In this study, the time temperature profile of a missile exposed to fire in a compartment adjacent to the missile magazine is examined. The study required the development of a heat transfer model based on the geometry and thermophysical properties of a new concept for a vertical launching system, …
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Discourses of motherhood in women's magazines in contemporary Britain
… is represented in the text and images of women's magazines in contemporary Britain. It explores discourses of motherhood in this popular cultural form at this particular historical time, using quantitative, semiotic and discourse analyses of selected monthly magazines. Psychoanalytic theories and …
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Commerce, little magazines and modernity: New York, 1915-1922
… thesis examines the theme of commerce in four magazines of literature and the arts, all published in New York between 1915 and 1922. The magazines are The Seven Arts (1916-1917), 291 (1915-1916), The Soil (1916-1917), and The Pagan (1916-1922). The division between art and commerce is addressed …
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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 types …
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Behind the screens: How magazines organize for digital success
Change has dominated the media landscape for nearly two decades as digital content creation and delivery mushroomed from the work of secluded upstarts to that of society-influencing giants. Magazine publishers have found varying levels of success in this digital age. Some have thrived; others have …
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American magazines and their coverage of Germany: 1870-1890
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University
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(Inter)nationalizing Taiwanese Women's Magazines: Birth of Consuming Women
… defines femininity. Using Taiwanese women's magazines as a site of analysis, my dissertation offers a history of the changing articulations of femininity from the 1950s to the present, with an emphasis on the relationships among gender identity, consumption, nation formation, and …
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Self-Improvement and Teen Magazines: A Matter of Fashion and Beauty: A Content Analysis of Sassy, Seventeen and YM--Teen Magazines for Adolescent Females
This research is a content analysis of three teen magazines: Sassy, Seventeen and YM. It replicates an earlier study by Evans, Rutberg, Sather and Turner, to determine if teen magazines targeting a young, female audience still promote self-improvement through fashion and physical beautification. …
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Coverage of causes of death among women in 1991 magazines
Seven 1991 magazines were reviewed for their content on causes of mortality in women of four age groups: 15-24, 25-44, 45-64, and 65 & older. Two hundred and fifty-one articles were coded and analyzed using frequency distributions and a Spearman rank order correlation to determine the relationship …
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EXPANSIVE MODERNISM: FEMALE EDITORS, LITTLE MAGAZINES, AND NEW BOOK HISTORIES
… our understanding of “littleqrdquo; magazines and the editors behind them, but many studies continue to be restricted to the 1920s, examine male editors, and focus on well–established literary journals, rather than the subversive magazines that expanded the reign of modernism in …
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White Beauty: The Portrayal of Minorities in Teen Beauty Magazines
… minorities in the two most popular teen beauty magazines: <em>Seventeen</em> and <em>YM</em>. Nine issues for 2003 constituted the sample frame yielding a total of 620 advertisements containing human models. After setting up a theoretical framework of the new racism and White beauty, this study …
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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 Agrarian Myth in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century American Magazines
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Coverage by Selected Consumer Magazines of Educational Issues, 1956-1966
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Attitudes of American Magazines Toward Atmospheric Nuclear Testing, 1945-1965
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