Print culture and urban sensationalism is a set of image galleries featuring scans (mostly of front covers) of a variety of 20th century periodicals focused on crime, scandal, urban nightlife and other sensations. All of these magazines are in the collections of Will Straw. A key aim of this site is to provide a sense of the different national traditions of sensation-oriented print culture, from the Québec journaux jaunes of the 1950s and 1960s through the Mexican nota roja.
Click on one of the galleries listed here:
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(Intro) Print culture and urban sensationalism
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Canada: Broadway Brevities, Toronto edition, 1937-1948
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Canada: Québécois confession and romance magazines
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Canada: The Axe (1922-1924)
Canada: The Barker (1934) -
Canada: The Canadian True Crime Magazine of the 1940s and 1950s
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Canada: The Quebec Détective
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Canada: The Québécois journaux jaunes (yellow papers): the example of Le Senteux
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Canada: Toronto’s Hush
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Canada: The Québécois journaux jaunes (yellow papers)
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France: Crime and sensation in the 1930s and 1940s
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France: Détective, 1940
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France: Paris-Flirt. 1923-1926
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France: Qui? Détective, 1950
France: Qui? Détective, 1951
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France: Qui? Détective, 1952
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France: Qui? Détective, 1953
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France, Qui? Détective, 1954
France: Qui? Détective, 1955
France: Qui? Détective, 1956 -
France: Qui? Détective, 1957
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France: Détective, 1958
France: Détective, 1959
France: Short-lived crime papers of the 1940s
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Mexico: Detectives — 1930s, 1960s
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Mexico: Imitators of Alarma!
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Mexico: Miscellaneous nota roja
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Mexico: Prensa Roja, 1955-1956
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Mexico: Magazine de Policia, 1942-1953
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Mexico: Radical magazines Por Qué and Por Esto!
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United States: African-American tabloids
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United States: Broadway Brevities (1916-1925)
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United States: City Tabloids, 1932-1934
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United States: Foto Magazine, 1937-1939
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United States: New York City entertainment guides of the 1930s
United States: Sunday Mirror (New York, 1930s-1940s)
United States: Sunday News (New York, 1930s-1940s)
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United States: The long publishing career of Joseph “Cap’n Joey” Burten
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United States: The magazine photography of Burt Owen
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United States: Broadway Brevities (1930-1935)
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United States: Chicago entertainment magazines
United States: The New York Humour Magazine Wave of 1931-1932United States: Miscellaneous crime periodicals
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