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A fascinating feminist reading of an often scorned medium: the storytelling, cross-platform success, and female fandom of the photoromance.Born in Italy and successfully exported to the rest of the world, photoromances had a readership of millions in the postwar years. By the early 1960s, more than ten million Italians read a photoromance each week. Despite its popularity, the photoromance—a form of graphic storytelling that uses photographs instead of drawings—was widely scorned as a medium, and its largely female audience derided as naive, pathetic, and uneducated. In this provocative book, Paola Bonifazio offers another perspective, making a case for the relevance of the photoromance for both feminism and media culture. She argues that the photoromance pioneered storytelling across platforms, elevated characters and artists into brands, and nurtured a devoted fan base. Moreover, Bonifazio shows that female readers—condescended to by intellectuals, journalists, and politicians of both the left and the right—powered the Italian photoromance industry's success.Bonifazio examines the “convergence culture” of Italian media as photoromance magazines dispersed their content across multiple formats, narrative conventions, editorial and business strategies, and platforms. The plots of photoromances often resembled the storylines of romantic films, and film stars themselves often appeared in photoromances. Bonifazio discusses the media habits of photoromance readers; the use of photoromances to promote political, religious, and social agendas, including a campaign for “birth control in comics”; and long-term fandom. While publishers built lifelong relationships with their readers, the readers built a common identity and culture.
Fotonovelas --- Romance fiction --- Love stories --- Romances (Love stories) --- Romantic fiction --- Romantic stories --- Fiction --- Fotonovela --- Photo comic books --- Photo novels --- Photocomics --- Photographic novels --- Photonovelas --- Photonovels --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Popular literature --- Stories without words --- History and criticism
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Discarded by archivists and disregarded by scholars despite its cultural impact on post-World War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique crossroads. This hybrid medium presented popular films in a magazine format that joined film stills or set pictures with captions and dialogue balloons to re-create a cinematic story, producing a tremendously popular blend of cinema and text that supported more than two dozen weekly or monthly publications. Illuminating a long-overlooked 'lowbrow' medium with a significant social impact, The Film Photonovel studies the history of the format as a hybrid of film novelizations, drawn novels, and nonfilm photonovels. While the field of adaptation studies has tended to focus on literary adaptations, this book explores how the juxtaposition of words and pictures functioned in this format and how page layout and photo cropping could affect reading. Finally, the book follows the film photonovel's brief history in Latin America and the United States. Adding an important dimension to the interactions between filmmakers and their audiences, this work fills a gap in the study of transnational movie culture.
Fotonovelas --- Film adaptations --- Motion pictures and literature --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- Fotonovela --- Photo comic books --- Photo novels --- Photocomics --- Photographic novels --- Photonovelas --- Photonovels --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Popular literature --- Stories without words --- History and criticism --- Motion pictures and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Fotonovelas - History and criticism --- Film adaptations - History and criticism --- 094:82-91 --- 094:82-91 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Populaire literatuur. Volksboeken --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Populaire literatuur. Volksboeken
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