Magazine Flashcards
Vogue
Material, fashion, sells a lifestyle
The big issue
Ethos- hand up not a hand out, diverse, left wing
Industry sales
Magazines aren’t dying, more new magazine companies each year, 57% 15+ GB read a print magazine
Vogue 1960’s
Women’s liberation, more jobs, education, Friedan- women shown as men’s possession never as a person, advertisers unsure how to react to women’s movement
Imperial leather
Intimate mode of address, red,white, black homely motherly colours, direct address ‘you’
Cutex advert
Nature, beauty
Vogue front cover
Sophia Loren, beauty, fashion, main attraction, cover lines hidden in the bottom corner
Moving on article
Article title connotations, varying representations, races, gender,
Theories
Barthes semiotics, structuralism Levi-strauss, representation hall, feminism hooks van zoonen, performance butler
Targeted advertising
Green, high audience engagement, high production value, long shelf life, target niche audience in comparison to digital advertising
David gauntlet
Identity, media provides us with tools to shape our identity, modern day media provides us with more diverse tools
The big issue reception
Hall, dominant hegemonic they are helping the settler of the big issue
Vogue industry owners
Conde nast own many other magazines eg vanity fair, the New Yorker, fashion magazines, subsidiary of advanced publications
Vogue and conde Nast example of
Horizontal integration
The big issue industry
Independent publisher, website, non profit, goes against Curran and seaton idea that media is driven by profit and power