The editorial team of the Journal of Periodical Studies is happy to announce the publication of a special issue on the press in inter-war Europe, guest-edited by Fabio Guidali and Gioula Koutsopanagou. The essays selected for inclusion in this special issue are drawn mainly from papers delivered at the 8th ESPRit Annual International Conference on ‘Periodicals and Visual Culture’, held in Athens in September 2019.
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Journal of European Periodical Studies Vol 5 No 1 (2020): Vol 5 No 1 (2020): What is Popular? Studies on the Press in Inter-War Europe
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
Gioula Koutsopanagou, What is Popular? Studies on the Press in Interwar Europe: Popular Print as Historical Artefact
Martin Conboy, Aligning the Newspaper and the People: Defining the Popular in the British Press
Irene Piazzoni, Shaping a Weekly ‘For Everyone’: Italian Rotocalchi Entre-Deux-Guerres
24–42
Enrico Landoni, Propaganda and Information Serving the Italian Sports Movement: The Case of the Periodical Lo Sport Fascista (1928‒43)
Victoria Kuttainen, Books, Films, and Phonographs: Australian Interwar Magazines and the Intermediation of Historical New Media
James Whitworth, Visual Humour and the Pocket Cartoon: Osbert Lancaster and a Paradigm Shift in the British Press in the Interwar Years
Nicole Immig, Greek Illustrated Journals and the ‘Popular’ (1912‒24): In Quest for a New Research Approach
Fabio Guidali, Afterword: In the Eye of the Beholder? A Proposal for a Popular Culture Artefacts Checklist
REVIEWS
Andrew D. Hoyt, Review of Paolo Giovannetti, ed., Periodici del Novecento e del Duemila fra Avanguardie e Postmoderno (2018)
Fauve Vandenberghe, Review of Jennie Batchelor and Manushag N. Powell, eds, Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690–1820s (2018)
ABOUT JEPS
The Journal for European Periodical Studies is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed online journal, hosted by Ghent University. It is devoted to the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present. Any contributions to future issues can be submitted via ojs.ugent.be/jeps.
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Kind regards,
Marianne van Remoortel (editor in chief), Catherine Clay, Kristin Ewins, Maaike Koffeman and Julie Birkholz