Tim Holmes is the course co-ordinator of the Postgraduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism at Cardiff University and founder of the Mapping The Magazine series of conferences.

This book draws on a variety of theoretical approaches and a wealth of titles from around the world to demonstrate how significant the magazine has been, and continues to be, to in the realm of journalism and cultural production

1. GUEST EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Tim Holmes

ARTICLES

2. Why Should They Care? The Relationship of Academic Scholarship to the Magazine Industry Sammye Johnson

3. Pornography For Women, Or What They Don't Show You In Cosmo! Clarissa Smith

4. New Sexism? Readers' Responses to the use of Irony in Men's Magazines Bethan Benwell

5. Before Cosmopolitan: The Girl in German Women Magazines in the 1920s Nina Sylvester

6. Documenting Kate Moss: Fashion Photography and the Persistence of Photojournalism John Hartley

7. Global Players, Émigrés, And Zeitgeist Magazine Design and the interrelation between the US and Germany Patrick Roessler

8. Johannesburg Lunch-Hour 1951-1963: The emergence and development of the humanist photographic essay in Drum magazine Darren Newbury

9. Consumer Magazines In South Africa And Israel: Toward a Socio-Semiotic Approach to Magazine Research Sonja Narunsky-Laden

10. The Changing Face Of Women's Magazines In Russia Sian Stephenson

11. The Rise Of The Gossip Press In Spain Manuela Bueno, María Luisa Cárdenas and Lola Esquivias

12. Customer Magazines: The Rise of 'Glossies' as Brand Extensions Lynda Dyson

13. 'Everything Louder Than Everything Else': The Contemporary Metal Music Magazine and its Cultural Appeal Andy R Brown

14. Nineteenth-Century Popular Science Magazines: Narrative, and the Problem of Historical Materiality James Mussell

15. Magazine Exceptionalism: The Concept, The Criteria, The Challenge David Abrahamson