Magazine Content Research Articles

Mina All New: An Unmarried Mother on Italian Television in the Early 1960s

In 1960s Italy, mass culture played an important role in the circulation of ideas as tens-of-millions of people read magazines, listened to music, and watched television. In 1963, Mina – one of Italy’s most popular singers and a variety television star – had an illegitimate child. Despite this public moral lapse, her records continued to sell, magazines reported on her situation, and advertisers continued to use her to promote products. While the Italian state and the Catholic Church sought to guide the public and slow the pace of social change by restricting mass culture, Mina’s case reveals cracks in the mediation of moral content by the state broadcaster and demonstrates the growing influence of middle-class audiences by the end of Italy’s economic ‘miracle’. The article uses magazine and television content, market research, and viewer surveys to argue that Mina’s case shows the importance of mass culture in social change and new limits to church and state control over audiences. Mina’s career recovery would have been unthinkable a few years earlier. Her return to television variety in 1965 demonstrated the importance of mass culture in social change, and a new role for audiences, advertisers and enterprises in setting Italy’s moral codes.

Gendering the history of cinemagoing in Izmir, Turkey: Middle-class women’s experiences of cinema in the 1960s and 1970s

This article focuses on cinemagoing in Izmir (the third largest city in Turkey) in the 1960s and the 1970s, when the city developed a vibrant cinema culture with its numerous winter and summer cinemas. It attempts to undo the problematic conceptions of homogeneous audiences and cinemagoing experiences by focusing on how gender shaped and constructed the experiences of middle-class audiences. The primary source material for the article is qualitative data obtained from 62 oral history interviews, in addition to the contents of local newspapers and film industry magazines. The article argues that although, for women, cinemagoing was a very meaningful event in itself, it was not a wholly free and easily pleasurable activity. It also suggests that women, like men, went to the cinema to see a variety of films more than they went to socialize, and their choice of films was not limited to supposedly women’s genres. Overall, the article attempts to break with the nostalgic tone in popular and academic discussions of cinemagoing in Izmir and other cities in Turkey. It shows that cinema in Izmir, and possibly elsewhere in Turkey, was not just a forum of collective entertainment and pleasure, but also a locus of struggle.

Gender Sphere of Concepts in the Postmodern Periodicals for Women and Men in Ukraine

The use of gender in print media is poorly understood both at the level of the post-Soviet (postcolonial in nature) journalism studies and in the general context of social research. A similar situation is observed with regard to the study of the gender sphere of concepts, and at the postmodern stage of development of periodicals. Postmodern convergence of methodology and research objects of the humanities will make it necessary to study social and mass media phenomena from the point of view of linguistics, sociology and journalism. This makes it relevant to study media issues of gender through links with language (cognitive linguistics). The purpose of the work is to clarify the gender sphere of concepts in the study of Ukrainian periodicals for women and men. The article implements a combination of concrete-historical, structural-typological, system-functional methods. Descriptive and comparative methods, typology, modeling methods are used at different stages of work. The study used the method of content analysis to study the gender content of modern gender-labeled magazines. The article proves that the gender sphere of concepts is based on the basic gender macroconcepts “woman” and “man”. They are used in the periodicals under study in various proportions, depending on what roles are played by a woman or a man in society. It is from the balance, thoughtfulness, responsible selection of gender characteristics that are presented in gender-labeled periodicals that modern and future gender images are formed, the idea of ideal women and men, their needs, opportunities, responsibilities in the family, at work, and in general in all spheres of life.

Pelatihan jurnalistik pada redaktur majalah sekolah Serambi Al-Muayyad

School magazines are a medium for students to practice and develop their journalistic potential. A student must have qualified journalistic knowledge to produce good writing in a magazine. For this reason, training and assistance in magazine writing are necessary so that school magazines continue to exist and are of higher quality. One school that has a school magazine is MA Al-Muayyad Surakarta. Journalism training is essential at this school because many students have not developed their writings properly. The methods used in this training are interviews, presentations, discussions, and article writing training. This training was held in April 2018. This training activity provides good benefits, especially for the training participants, because before the training was held, most of the magazine's contents took sources from the internet. However, after the training, the students' writing became original, the language used got better, and the rubric content more diverse.

La larga sombra de Marte revistas culturales chilenas e imaginarios de nación en la postguerra del Pacífico (1898-1912)

This article examines the literary and visual representations of the War of the Pacific (1879-1884) in Chilean cultural magazines published between 1898 and 1912. The work addresses the transformations of the journalistic world in the period and the modernization of cultural magazines, associated with a new generation of intellectuals and artists. From the perspective of the cultural history of the war, the representations of the war past and its uses by Chilean nationalism are analyzed in the contents of cultural magazines through biographies, short stories, chronicles, testimonies, poems, and illustrations.

КОНСТРУИРОВАНИЕ ДЕТСТВА В РОССИИ КОНЦА XIX - НАЧАЛА XX ВВ.: ОТ ТЕОРИИ К ИЗУЧЕНИЮ ДИСКУРСИВНЫХ ПРАКТИК (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ДЕТСКОЙ ПЕРИОДИЧЕСКОЙ ПРЕССЫ ДЛЯ СРЕДНЕГО И СТАРШЕГО ВОЗРАСТА)

Aim: general analytical review of the design of childhood on the pages of periodicals for children and youth of the late XIX - early XX centuries. The work reveals the main theoretical aspects of researching the texts of children's magazines within the framework of discourse analysis, identifying and describing the main characteristics of discursive practices. In order to explicate the content of the image of childhood, we singled out and analyzed the representations reflected in journalistic articles in the genre of journalism. In pre-revolutionary Russia, the organization of discursive space in children's magazines played a huge role, since the content of magazines particularly influenced children's socialization through the organization of leisure, cognitive, and communicative activities and defined the child's mental space. As a result, various models of child design were identified that revealed the transformation of the child's image under the influence of the social and political environment of that time.

DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE OF HIGH SCHOOL LEVELS

Religious tolerance of Bogor An-Nur Aliyyah high school students is known that the religious tolerance of students is still low, known to the fact that the majority of students lose their tolerance. Factors that influence this occur because many students are less study and live the concept of tolerance, so that the spirit of tolerance is weakened. In addition, students also lose the spirit of togetherness, and many do not base Pancasila as the basis of the life of the Indonesian people, aka all of them individually, causing intolerance in their lives. This study aims to 1) Analyze the concept of religious tolerance according to Ibnu Taimiyah; 2) Analyzing religious tolerance in An-Nur Aliyyah Bogor high school students, and 3) Developing the development of co-curricular activities in increasing religious tolerance. The research approach used is a content analysis approach. The data source consists of primary data sources consisting of the Book of Tolerance Learning by Ibnu Taimiyah. The results of the study note that 1) Religious tolerance in An-Nur Aliyyah high school students Bogor is known that religious tolerance of students is still low in the level of religious tolerance of students. 2) The concept of religious tolerance according to Ibnu Taimiyah which can be applied as a basic reference for the preparation of co-curricular activities in An-Nur Aliyyah High School Bogor consists of the concept of God as a source of love, the concept of the Prophet Muhammad is a practical example of compassion, the concept of no coercion in religion, the concept of faith and good deeds as the basis of tolerance, the concept of prohibiting spreading hatred, the concept of prohibiting spreading violence, and the concept of prioritizing the way of peace. 3) Development of Co-curricular Activities Program in increasing religious tolerance according to the concept of Ibnu Taimiyah in An-Nur Aliyyah High School Bogor, which is moving towards the existence of thoughts to build religious tolerance, especially in peer tutoring activities, literacy programs of exemplary stories, filling wall magazine content ( mading) schools, visits to orphanages, orphans or visiting street children, campaigns against hoaxes and hate speech, research assignments in the form of papers, and simulations dealing with fights and fights. Keywords: Ibn Taymiyyah, Co-curricular, Religious Tolerance

Increase Readership With Contests or Games

The Membership Management ReportVolume 17, Issue 2 p. 3-3 Newsletter, Magazine Content Increase Readership With Contests or Games First published: 31 December 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/mmr.31650Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume17, Issue2February 2021Pages 3-3 RelatedInformation

The Definitive Editor: Alfred Kreymborg and the Others Magazine-Anthology Duo

This article examines two intrinsically linked periodical publications: Others: A Magazine of the New Verse (1915–1919) and Others: An Anthology of the New Verse (1916–1920) both edited by Alfred Kreymborg. To date, scholarship on the publications has focused either on the magazine or, to a lesser extent, on the anthology, but never on the dynamic between the two publications. The article begins by considering the way both publications challenged the boundaries of medial form in an effort to better characterize the respective functions of the magazine and the anthology in the Others dynamic. It demonstrates how the anthology, an annual publication, allowed Kreymborg to reclaim editorial agency over the Others brand, facilitating a secondary round of editing of the magazine's contents. By creating a secondary selection of poems increasingly collated by guest editors, Kreymborg was able to further shape the representation of the duo. The restoration of the Others anthology to the history of the Others project sheds new light on key contributors and resultantly requires us to further nuance our understanding of the Others magazine as a largely inclusive project. In uncovering the role the Others anthology played in the Others dynamic, this article ultimately underscores the need to include the serially published modernist anthology in our understanding of the diverse and interrelated modernist media ecology.

Older women using women's magazines: the construction of knowledgeable selves

AbstractWomen's magazines are widely read in Canada. The popularity of such magazines is significant because critical gerontologists, primarily drawing on content analyses of the magazines, often argue that these publications convey problematic messages about ageing. This article broaches the subject of women's magazines and ageing from a different vantage point, that of the older woman reader herself. This audience-centred research draws on 21 semi-structured interviews with Canadian women over the age of 55. The study examines what older women say about the ageing-related content of women's magazines, along with what they say about how, when and why they read these magazines. Findings illustrate that participants are aware of the inadequate and unrealistic representations of older women in women's magazines. Nonetheless, they value the publications as a source of practical information on a variety of topics and as a light and undemanding source of entertainment and relaxation. The study reveals how participants assess and deploy magazine contents and characteristics in ways that contribute to, and are informed by, their lives and identities as older women. Against the broader cultural context of ageism, using and talking about women's magazines enables the participants to position themselves as knowledgeable and informed on a variety of topics and in multiple interactions, both in explicit reference to the magazines themselves and more generally in their lives.

The magazine “Chidusz” as an exemplification of the potential of the young generation of Jews and their public activity

The article analyses the content of the Jewish magazine “Chidusz”. The journal was created from the transformation of the Jewish religious community the information bulletin of the Jewish religious community in Wrocław and has become one of the most recognised Jewish magazines within the Polish publishing market. The aim of the analysis was, inter alia, to determine the dominant contexts, whether they have a didactic and educational character, and whether they can constitute a valuable source of information for people with Jewish roots. To what extent does “Chidusz” respond to the needs of the young Polish Jewish community? In particular, will young readers obtain information and tips on how to build their Jewish cultural identity, as well as creating a family and bringing up children according to the model of Jewish tradition?

Representation of Gender Roles and Media: The Case of TRT Children’s Magazine

Çocuklara yönelik olan süreli yayınlar, ülkemizde ticari bir yaklaşımla Batılı popüler çizgi karakterlere ve çeşitli promosyonlara dayanan dergiler, gazetelerin çocuk dergileri, çocuk edebiyatı dergileri ya da kamu kurumlarının kendi hizmet alanlarına yönelik yayınlanan çocuk dergileri şeklinde çeşitlilik göstermektedir. Çalışmanın konusu olan TRT Çocuk Dergisi, bir kamu kurumu olan TRT’nin kanallarından TRT Çocuk tarafından yayınlanmaktadır. Dergide, çocuk okurun boş zamanını verimli bir biçimde geçirmesi ve eğlenceli bir yolla çeşitli bilgiler edinmesine yönelik içerikler bulunmaktadır. Bununla birlikte, çocuğun medya araçlarından aldığı mesajların, onun toplumsallaşma sürecine de etki ettiği bilinmektedir. Bu bağlamda, çalışmanın cevap aradığı temel soru, TRT Çocuk Dergisi’nde toplumsal cinsiyet rollerinin nasıl kurulduğu ve yansıtıldığıdır. Çocuk hedef kitlenin toplumsallaşma sürecinde medyanın da etkisiyle, yaşadığı toplumun kültür ve değerlerini öğrenerek, benimsemesi ve davranışlarına yansıtması söz konusu olacaktır. Bu nedenle, ülkemizin çocuk kitleye yönelik yayın yapan kamu yayıncısı TRT’ye bağlı bir çocuk dergisinde bu kalıp ve modellerin ne şekilde kurulduğu ve çocukların bu bağlamda ne şekilde içeriklere maruz kaldığı önem taşımaktadır. Çalışmada nitel içerik analizi yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Çalışmada incelenen sayılardan yola çıkılarak, dergide rol model olarak temsil edilen kişilerin, çok büyük bir oranla erkek karakterlerden oluştuğu, içeriklerde yer verilen temsillerde de geleneksel kadın ve erkek rollerinin devam ettirildiği belirlenmiştir.

Reflexive renovation and the future of household sustainability: The role of media and imagination in household consumption

AbstractRecent scholarship illustrates the significant role media content plays in shaping home renovation outcomes, suggesting additional focus on the media–renovation dynamic is warranted in the face of increasing household consumption. Examining the reflexive characteristics of media‐engaged practices in renovation reveals the ways in which future household consumption practices are imagined and materially scripted during the design and construction phases of home renovation. Understanding these activities has the potential to contribute to the environmental sustainability of homes. The prolific nature of Australian home renovation activity is evident in the AU$33.3 billion spent annually and the diverse and widespread engagement with renovation media by homeowners. Television programmes, magazine content, websites, and apps reflect socio‐cultural trends towards large floor areas and additional energy‐intensive devices. Based on in‐depth interviews with 22 home renovators across Victoria, Australia, this article examines how media script the spatial and material dimensions of homes during renovation. Drawing on a social practices understanding of social life in households, the article uses the concept of reflexivity in renovation practices to show how renovators engage with media when reimagining their homes during renovations, subsequently shaping future practices and sustainability outcomes. Analysis demonstrates that features such as butler's pantries, back decks, and upgrades in appliances are in part scripted by the imagination–media dynamic. An argument is made for renovation media content to include a sustainability dimension in keeping with the key aspirations of homeowners—socially acceptable, aesthetically pleasing, financially efficient, and thermally comfortable homes.

When media become the mirror: a meta-analysis on media and body image

ABSTRACT A growing body of research on the media’s effects on body image suggests that media of different forms plays a vital role in shaping people’s body image concerns and behavioral intentions. By conducting a comprehensive meta-analysis of published and gray literature (in total 127 studies yielding 543 effect sizes of seven measures), this study examined the relationship between media and a wide range of body image-related outcomes as well as moderators (e.g., media type, outcome type, age group, gender proportion in the sample, and study design). The analysis demonstrated that the magnitude of this relationship significantly varied across media types (i.e., television commercial, television program, magazine commercial, magazine contents, and social media) and outcome types (i.e., affective, cognitive, or behavioral outcomes). Moreover, there were three major findings of this meta-analysis: 1) both women and men of all age groups across multiple countries could be affected by thin/athletic-ideal media exposure; 2) media with a commercial purpose compared to those with no commercial purpose was less effective in increasing body image concerns; 3) media exposure was the most influential in provoking the eating disorder and the internalization of thin-ideal.

Gates of (Un)Fulfilled Dreams – Polish Comic Magazines in the 1990-1992

This paper is an attempt to trace the existence of Polish comic magazines published from 1990 to 1992. The article focuses on the content of magazines and promotional functions of their publishers, shows how selected titles tried to find their own place on the Polish publishing market after 1989.

The Role of Pubertal Timing and Heterosocial Involvement in Early Adolescents’ Media Internalization: A Moderated Moderation Analysis

The present three-wave panel study ( N = 968, [Formula: see text] = 11.30, SD = 1.06) examines how developmental factors—pubertal timing and heterosocial involvement (i.e., one’s involvement in cross-sex activities)—influence early adolescents’ level of media internalization. We hypothesized that early pubertal timing positively moderates the association between sexualizing magazine reading and media internalization. Next, we argued that increased heterosocial involvement will weaken the amplifying influence of early pubertal timing on the aforementioned relationship. Both hypotheses were confirmed. For early adolescents who mature earlier than same-age/sex peers, reading sexualizing magazines resulted in more media internalization. Furthermore, our results showed that moderate to high cross-sex peer interactions can serve as a protective force against the negative influence of early pubertal timing. These results highlight the influential role of appearance-related developmental factors in the processing of sexualizing magazine content and point to the potential protective role of cross-sex peer interactions in media internalization.

From Inspire to Rumiyah: does instructional content in online jihadist magazines lead to attacks?

ABSTRACT Considerable time has been spent examining how groups like AQAP and ISIS used their online magazines to reach and radicalize individuals in Western democratic states. This paper continues this investigation but shifts its analysis to focus on the ‘how-to’ or instructional content of these publications, an understudied part of the literature. One of the stated goals of these magazines was to provide tactical know-how and assist supporters conducting terror plots in their home states. The question: did the tactics outlined in the magazines materialize in actual plots/attacks and how quickly were they put into practice? The paper examines this question by creating an overview of the tactics which appear in these publications and cross referencing them with a dataset of 166 Islamist-inspired homegrown terror plots/attacks in 14 Western democratic states to determine if, and when, they first appeared in relation to their publication date. It concluded that while some of the suggested strategies did appear following their publication, often it occurred after considerable time had elapsed. This suggests the instructional content did not resonate with readers in real time.

The Ordinary Mystique And US Weekly's Heyday

The Ordinary Mystique And US Weekly's Heyday Elizabeth Meyers Hendrickson (bio) Extraordinarily Ordinary: Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity. Erin A. Meyers. Rutgers University Press, 2020. 145 pp. $27.95 paperback. These days, it seems almost quaint to imagine that there was a time before smartphones and social media, when consumers would purchase celebrity magazines just so they could peek behind the glamorous curtain into a celebrity's seemingly nonmediated life. But during the first decade of the twenty-first century, Us Weekly's print issues served exactly that purpose. The magazine, which dominated the celebrity-magazine market, was known for an editorial style and tone that mixed ordinary and extraordinary discourses and perpetuated a new type of star—reality-television performers. In Extraordinarily Ordinary: Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity, Erin A. Meyers takes a critical approach in placing the magazine's content within American cultural contexts. The introduction establishes relevant tie-ins with today's use of social media for public performance, and the book's core concepts link pre-social media celebrity-magazine foci to the current proliferation of personal branding vis-à-vis Instagram and other social platforms. Perhaps drawing on her perspective as coeditor of Celebrity Studies, Meyers keenly outlines the parallels between reality television, celebrity magazines, and Instagram posts—each successfully using the guise of authenticity to distribute mediated presentational performances of everyday life, crafted to gain optimal cultural attention and value. The data source is a ten-year corpus, starting in 2000, of Us Weekly print issues—archived, organized, and inductively coded. Using qualitative [End Page 113] research soft ware, Meyers establishes thematic shifts that recast certain reality-show cast members as reality celebrities and, ultimately, extraordinarily ordinary celebrities. The book charts this progression against the backdrop of some unwavering constants in the coverage, such as support for patriarchal norms and consumerist lifestyles, which do not preclude the shattering of traditional notions of fame. The book's structure is relatively uncomplicated: four building-block chapters, plus an introduction and a conclusion. Chapter 1 establishes the notions of ordinary or private self and extraordinary or public self within conventional stardom scholarship. The chapter also introduces its analysis framework, which includes three forms of labor: creative labor, labor of ordinariness, and celebrity-lifestyle labor. This triad forms a lens to study the construction of celebrity status, the mythologization of meritocracy, and the reinforcement of normative identities in the magazine's coverage. Chapter 2 examines how Us Weekly used the labor of ordinariness to achieve goals crucial to its profitability—such as the "growing" of celebrities through coverage of "ordinary" reality-television cast members. Chapter 3 discusses the celebrity-lifestyle labor needed to establish the transition from an ordinary to an extraordinary celebrity. To that end, the magazine might feature photos of an "ordinary" cast member doing "extraordinary" things, such as walking down a red carpet or showcasing their home. As such coverage is usually relegated to celebrities, its use converts the ordinary to the extraordinary. Chapter 4 illustrates this labor in a case study of reality-television star Lauren Conrad's transformation, offering insights into the below-the-surface dynamics that established Conrad as a bona fide celebrity and, now, a lifestyle brand. But it is the concluding chapter that drives home the true relevance of this book, by positioning Us Weekly within the annals of contemporary popular culture. It correctly recognizes its influence on today's social media celebrities (or rather, microcelebrities) and explicates the oft enblurred lines negotiated in today's perpetually selfie- loving, public- facing behavior. The conclusion also spotlights the centrality of industry shifts—including Us Weekly's sale to media mogul and Trump supporter David Pecker in 2017—to the magazine's ideological objectives. This text, while relatively slim in page count compared to other books about celebrity culture, is outstandingly dense with academic splendor. The author's previous research about the relationship between Us Weekly and gossip blogs clearly informs the book, as she confidently and competently [End Page 114] weaves together interdisciplinary arguments that allow readers a nuanced and contextual understanding. Its intended audience includes scholars and students in fields such...

A Critical Analysis of the Jihadi Discourse through Online Magazines with Special Reference to ‘Wyeth’ Magazine

‘Jihadism’ (also known as the jihadi movement) is a popular term that signifies the Islamic terror movement which thrives on extremist ideologies and violence. In addition to the conventional practices, the online medium is currently being employed for disseminating these extremist ideologies across the globe. Radicalisation and recruitment of geographically dispersed individuals as ‘jihadists’ for supporting Islamic terror activities tend to be the primary intent for using the digital platforms as the medium of communication in this context. One such initiative by the Lashkar-e-Taiba of Jammu and Kashmir was the release of the ‘Wyeth: The Resistance in Flow’, an e-magazine which was launched on April 2018. The first issue which was posted with an open access option was primarily designed to influence the Indian youth population through the radical interpretations of Islam. Hence, it is crucial to analyse and understand the jihadi discourse of the Wyeth magazine in order to curb and counter-attack such initiatives at its initial phase. For this purpose, the present study aims to examine the content of the Wyeth magazine and analyse the basic traits of the jihadi propaganda and its potential to aid in the self-radicalisation process.

Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema by David Church (review)

Reviewed by: Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema by David Church Erin Wiegand David Church. Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema. New York. Bloomsbury Press, 2016. 296 pages, $27.85. While going through a collection of sexploitation film fan magazines as part of my PhD dissertation research, I was flummoxed by a number of photo spreads supposedly taken on the sets of films I'd never heard of and couldn't find any information about. It wasn't until reading David Church's Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2016), that I realized these films had, in fact, been invented. Church explains that a few adult magazines of the 1960s and 70s would recycle production stills from different films (or use newly shot photographs), combining them with a phony synopsis for a film that never existed. In so doing, he argues, these magazines underscored the relationship between adult films and their paratextual framework: first, such pictorial features mirrored commonplace practices of the exploitation film industry, which would itself frequently re-use old footage as well as insert newly shot scenes in creating new product for release. But also, for contemporary collectors of vintage adult-film magazines—as well as for historians and researchers—these magazines' coverage of films that either are now lost or never existed in the first place also invokes an erotic sense of "tease," of desire deferred, that is similar to the pleasures of pornographic films themselves. Such insights about the particular desires stoked by vintage porn's "material legacies" (to quote the book's subtitle) are at the heart of Disposable Passions, which looks at the contemporary collecting, distribution, and appreciation of pre-1980s sex films. Of course, Church does not only look at paratextual items like fan magazines, but also examines the ways in which vintage porn's materiality—that is, imaginings or evidence of its physical existence as a film print—adds to its erotic value for contemporary fans. The book is thus well situated in recent scholarship around adult film, which seems to have growing interest in material cultures. Church's analysis throughout the book rests on Linda Williams' argument (particularly in her 2008 book Screening Sex) that the essence of erotic cinema—and eroticism in general—is a tension between concealment and revelation, or 'itch' and 'scratch'. This idea undergirds not only the form and function of sex films themselves, but also their history, as censorship laws and cultural standards shift and determine what can and cannot be shown on screen. This is, by now, not a particularly new concept—but what Church does in Disposable Passions is to apply the conceal/reveal thesis to several new areas of study, demonstrating this same dynamic at work in the enjoyment of vintage porn by contemporary fans; the content and editorial direction of 1960s sexploitation film magazines; the collecting and curation of vintage porn in archives; and the re-release of these films on home video. Part of what makes vintage porn appeal to its fans, Church argues, is that these films have largely been seen as 'disposable passions', and discarded, banned, neglected, or otherwise concealed from view; fans (and historians) thus have to work to 'rediscover' and reveal them. Disposable Passions is in some ways a companion to Church's previous work Grindhouse Nostalgia (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), which examines how exploitation films (primarily of the 1970s) have been reimagined by contemporary fans: what he calls "retrosploitation." In both books, Church posits that as once-ephemeral, hard-to-find, low-culture films become more widely accessible via video and then DVD, nostalgia operates as a mechanism to regulate the connoisseurship of the fan culture around them. Most importantly, Church finds that nostalgia can fuel both ironic readings of older texts (an appreciation of a film's outmodedness, quaint sensibilities, or 'badness') and sincere appreciations of films that fans champion as having withstood the test of time and which still have the capacity to thrill and entertain. In other words, fans can use nostalgia to enjoy older exploitation films both because of and in spite of their age...