“Of the making of magazines there is no end”: W.T. Stead, Newness, and the Archival Imagination

Domesticating enchantment: Mediating feminine magic in the interwar French fashion magazine

“…As he puts it:The current issue establishes its novelty through the way it differs from its predecessor, yet magazines, like all serials, are predicated on repetition, where novelty is tempered by formal features such as layout, typeface, certain features or articles, even the recurrence of the name itself. (2015a: 70)…”

“…The mediation of this extraordinary state in a cyclical forum like a magazine renders it ordinary, as it assimilates it into the broader economy of meaning that is represented by the magazine. Enchantment’s novelty – as an experience, as an affect – is tempered by the repetition of the trope of the enchanting feminine across issues, magazines and years, echoing the way that, in publishing magazines, ‘newness is always tempered by things from the past’ (Mussell, 2015a: 70). The nature of enchantment’s mediation in a serial publication ensures that relations with alterity that are introduced by experiences of enchantment are easily neutralised by being made legible .…”

Introduction: theorising fashion media

“…It is one that relies both on traditional features of the fashion media – such as the themed fashion spread – and well-worn tropes of racialised gender in the Australian context, as the magazine becomes an agent of a white supremacist national imaginary. The particularity of the fashion magazine as a genre trafficking in visual images of feminine bodies, using the repetition characteristic of the serial form (see: Beetham, 2015; Mussell, 2015; Levay, 2018; Sheehan, 2018), is what shapes Russh 's cohesive message. Its use of the fashionable feminine body repeated serially across the years even as fashions change, to embody the white fantasy of Australianness, offers a notably direct ideological mediation.…”