On this page, we aim to gather academic books and articles which either focus on film-related magazines or which use these magazines as source materials.
BOOKS
Jacobs, Lea. (2008). The Decline of Sentiment. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Jeffers McDonald, Tamar. (2013). Doris Day Confidential: Hollywood, Sex, and Stardom. London: I. B. Tauris.
Lawrence, Amy. (2010). The Passion of Montgomery Clift. Berkeley: University of California Press.
McLean, Adrienne L. (2004). Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
Moseley, Rachel. (2003). Growing up with Audrey Hepburn: Text, Audience, Response. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Slide, Anthony. (2010). Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Sternheimer, Karen. (2011). Celebrity Culture and the American Dream. 1st ed. New York: Routledge.
ARTICLES
Gaines, Jane. (1986). ‘War, Women and Lipstick: Fan Mags in the Forties’ in Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, 5(2): 42-47.
Glancy, Mark. (2011). ‘Picturegoer: The Fan Magazine and Popular Film Culture in Britain During The Second World War’. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 31(4): 453-478.
Hoyt, Eric (2014). ‘Lenses for Lantern: Data Mining, Visualization, and Excavating Film History’s Neglected Sources.’ Film History: An International Journal 26.2: 146-168.
McLean, Adrienne L. (1995). ‘The Cinderella Princess and the Instrument of Evil: Surveying the Limits of Female Transgression in Two Postwar Hollywood Scandals’, Cinema Journal, 34(3):36-56.
Orgeron, Marsha. (2009). ‘“You Are Invited to Participate”: Interactive Fandom in the Age of the Movie Magazine’. Journal of Film and Video, 61.3: 76-97.
Stein, Sally. (1986). ‘The Graphic Ordering of Desire: Modernization of a Middle-Class Women’s Magazine, 1914-1939’, Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, 5(2): 6-16
McLean, Adrienne L. (2003). ‘”New Films in Story Form”: Movie Story Magazines and Spectatorship’. Cinema Journal, 42(3): 3-26.
BOOK CHAPTERS
McLean, Adrienne L. (2008) ‘Wedding Bells Ring, Storks Are Expected, the Rumours Aren’t True, Divorce Is the Only Answer: Stardom and Fan-Magazine Family Life in 1950s Hollywood,’ in A Family Affair: Cinema Calls Home, Murray Pomerance, ed.