J.F. Kennedy, memory and publishing: tensions between book and magazine in TIME magazine

Authors

  • Frederico de Mello Brandão Tavares Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
  • Márlon Uliana Calza Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2020.221.11

Abstract

Former President John F. Kennedy, as well as an iconic character in US and world politics, has starred in hundreds of magazine covers. In recent years, in 2013 and 2017, two volumes celebrated, respectively, the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death and the centenary of his birth; both produced under the memorial legacy key. LIFE’s 2017 edition and TIME’s 2013 edition each transform into a “book magazine”. These two editions summon the material plot of book production to report, in chapters, the public and private trajectory of the former president. Taking the 2013 issue of TIME magazine as the central object of the analysis, the text problematizes the tensions between book and magazine as graphic-visual and communicative materialities. It analyzes how this mutual affectation is reflected in a journalistic production, reconfiguring the nature of a magazine and characterizing the content of a historical dossier, revealing editorial principles and temporalities.

Keywords: Magazine. Book. John F. Kennedy. TIME magazine. Journalistic Dossiers.

Author Biographies

Frederico de Mello Brandão Tavares, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Professor Permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP). Doutor em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos, Brasil). Atualmente realiza pós-doutorado em Humanidades e Ciências Sociais na Universidade Nacional de La Plata (UNLP, Argentina).

Márlon Uliana Calza, Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis

Professor Permanente dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Design e em Arquitetura e Urbanismo do Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis – UniRitter. Doutor em Comunicação e Informação pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brasil).

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Published

2020-01-10

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Vol. 22 No. 1 (2020): Janeiro/Abril

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