THTR 3402: Costume Design

Black South African Magazines brings together over 50,000 pages of extremely rare, yet historically significant magazines, written and targeted specifically for Black African audiences. Developed in partnership with Sabinet, the materials have been sourced from African libraries. Despite their broad cultural and historical value, the magazines exist in just a few physical locations and have not been digitized before. Much of the content was created by a new generation of Black journalists, writers and artists. The magazines were hugely popular, and were packed with investigative journalism, photography, fiction, reviews, biographies, fashion, lifestyle, advertisements, and more. Many of them were syndicated across the continent and contained content specifically developed for the African English-speaking world, so they provide a view of Black society across all of Africa. The database has been developed in collaboration with Sabinet, a leading publisher of African materials for libraries, with digitization taking place in Africa. Includes: Drum Magazine, 1951-1973 -- Zonk!, 1953-1964 -- Zonk! Film-Pic Photo Stories, 1963 -- Contrast: South African Literary Journal, 1960-1973 -- Hi-Note!, 1954-1957 -- Grace Magazine, 1964-1966 -- The Townships Housewife, 1968.

More than 300 alternative, radical, and left journals, newspapers, and magazines and includes selected abstracts from research journals. Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political, and social change. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary.

Ebony is one of the key Black magazines in the United States of the 20th century, covering 20th and 21st-Century current events, art, design, politics and culture, literature, advertising, and more. Their editorial philosophy is to "showcase the best and brightest as well as highlighting the disparities in Black life in the United States and worldwide". The Ebony Magazine Archive contains indexing, abstracting and full text for the complete archive (including Covers and Advertisements) beginning in November 1945 to June 2014.

EIMA is an archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to the 21st century. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews.

"LGBT Magazine Archive offers the backfiles of major periodicals devoted to LGBT+ interests, covering prominent topics like health, lifestyle, politics, social attitudes, law, activism, LGBT rights, arts and literature. Dating back to the 1950s, it is a source for researching LGBT+ history and culture."--ProQuest

"A collection of men's-interest magazine backfiles serving research in men's studies/history but also offering important additional perspectives for women's studies. It includes some of the earliest publications of this type - National Police Gazette and Argosy - and covers key topics such as fashion, sports, health, and arts/entertainment"-- ProQuest description.

A searchable archive of leading women's interest magazines, dating from the 19th century through to the 21st. Subject coverage includes consumer culture, economics/marketing, family life, fashion, gender studies, health and fitness, home/interior design, popular culture, and social history.