"Art for America's sake": Decadence and the making of American literary culture in the little magazines of the 1890s
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An estimated 150 decadent Anglophile and Francophile little magazines emerged in America in the period 1894 to 1898 inspired by the European decadent periodicals. The Chap Book and M'lle New York are the two little magazines of this period that are highlighted and how European decadence was deployed by the editors of these magazines in a revolt against the invasion of cheap mass-market magazines and the genteel family house magazines such as Harper's is demonstrated.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2005
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Authoring 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes': mass-market beauty culture and the makeup of writers
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A critique of Anita Loos' international bestseller 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' and an analysis of its social and cultural underpinnings are presented. The novel portrays an intensely gendered consumer culture as embodied in the principal character, Lorelei Lee. The author's efforts, however, to disengage appearances from desires encourage the manipulation of public appearances as a survival tool in a world in obsessive pursuit of superficialities.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 1998
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'Fortune's business gentlemen: culture and corporate liberalism in the early 1930s
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Fortune magazine, first published in Feb 1930, used art and culture as means to promote its economic and social agenda. Fortune attempted to portray businesspeople as socially responsible, but this policy failed to clearly define the relationship between the profit motive and public-spirited behavior and collapsed when faced with crisis.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2001
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