1920's Media | Genre Magazines

Fan Mags.

Movie-fan and movie-romance magazines flourished during the 1920s. These were overlapping categories; both covered the Hollywood scene, but the content of the movie-romance publications stressed the marital adventures and romantic attachments of Hollywood, much of it invented. Among the many magazines in this field were Screenland (1920), Screen Play (1925), Screenbook (1928), Screen Stories (1929), and Screen Romances (1929).

Macfadden.

Health faddist Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955), who had become wealthy from his magazine Physical Culture, introduced what became known as the confession magazine with True Story in 1919. It reached a weekly circulation of more than 2 million. The success of this magazine was attributed in large part to its sexual frankness. However, True Story was not salacious or intended to arouse erotic feelings; Macfadden treated...