Cinémonde was a weekly popular film magazine which existed between 1928 and 1971 with six-year interruption due to its ban during the Nazi occupation of France. It was one of the best-selling magazines in its category particularly in the 1950s.
| Former editors | Suzanne Chantal |
|---|---|
| Categories | Film magazine |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Founded | 1928 |
| Final issue | 1971 |
| Country | France |
| Based in | Paris |
| Language | French |
| ISSN | 1153-690X |
History and profile edit
Cinémonde was launched in 1928.[1][2] It came out weekly.[1][3] In 1940 the magazine was closed by the Nazi forces after the occupation of France.[1] Cinémonde was restarted in March 1946 and published until 1971.[1] In the 1930s one of its editors-in-chief was Suzanne Chantal who was a women's right activist.[2] Its target audience was women[2] who were from the lower-middle and middle classes.[3]
Being part of the second generation film magazines in France Cinémonde did not regard the cinema and movies as an art.[4] Instead, it focused on news about movie stars and news from film studies.[4] From 1956 the magazine frequently featured articles about the French actress Brigitte Bardot.[3] In addition, its main content was the translation and adaptations of the articles published in American film magazines.[5]
In the 1950s Cinémonde enjoyed the highest level of circulation selling nearly 250,000 copies.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e Geneviève Sellier (2019). "Movie Magazines, Popular Films, and Popular Spectatorship in Postwar France". In Tamar Jeffers McDonald; Lies Lanckman (eds.). Star Attractions: Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press. p. 83. ISBN 9781609386740.
- ^ a b c Leila Wimmer (March 2014). "Modernity, femininity and Hollywood fashions: Women's cinephilia in 1930s French fan magazines" (PDF). Film, Fashion & Consumption. 3 (1): 62, 64. doi:10.1386/ffc.3.1.61_1.
- ^ a b c Ginette Vincendeau (2015). "A star is torn (to pieces): Brigitte Bardot seen through readers' letters in Cinémonde". Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. 19 (1): 91–92. doi:10.1080/17409292.2015.982435. S2CID 191469694.
- ^ a b Myriam Juan (2020). "Looking at Movie Fans: On Pictures Published in French Film Magazines of the Interwar Years". In Daniel Biltereyst; Lies Van de Vijver (eds.). Mapping Movie Magazines. Global Cinema. Global Cinema. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 203. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-33277-8_10. ISBN 978-3-030-33277-8. S2CID 216419888.
- ^ Anne Ja¨Ckel (2003). "Dual Nationality Film Productions in Europe after 1945". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 23 (3): 241. doi:10.1080/0143968032000095569. S2CID 194060292.