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''True Story'' is an American magazine published by True Renditions, LLC. It was the first of the confessions magazines genre, having launched in 1919. It carried the subtitle Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction. ==Content== With a circulation of 300,000 by 1923, the trend-setting publication remained a huge success through the 1920s and was a key title in Bernarr Macfadden's publishing empire of ''Physical Culture'', ''True Detective'', ''True Romances'', ''Dream World'', ''True Ghost Stories'', ''Photoplay'' and the tabloid ''New York Graphic''. It sprang from ''Physical Culture'', stemming from the many letters written the magazine by women about their experiences.〔Roland Marchand, ''Advertising the American Dream: Making Way For Modernity 1920-40'' p53-4 ISBN 0-520-05253-6〕 By 1929, the circulation of ''True Story'' was nearly two million.〔(Hatton, Jackie. ''St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture'', January 29, 2002. )〕〔(Bernarr Macfadden )〕 ''True Story'' offered anecdotal experiences, and the articles it presented, rewritten by staffers, were purportedly true. However, by the mid-1920s, many stories were professional submissions from fiction writers or were staff-written by Macfadden's stable of writers, including Fulton Oursler and Lyon Mearson. The language was kept relentlessly simple; Mcfadden would test language on the elevator operator, and reject whatever he could not understand.〔 Articles were illustrated with photographs of posed models, breaking away from the idealistic illustration common in magazines.〔Roland Marchand, ''Advertising the American Dream: Making Way For Modernity 1920-40'' p54 ISBN 0-520-05253-6〕 The magazine's approach and its audience were detailed by Jackie Hatton: :Sensing a widespread interest in the changing social/sexual codes of modern America, Macfadden put out a new magazine filled with first-hand accounts of social problems such as pre-marital sex, illegitimacy, adultery, unemployment, social relations, and crime (alongside ever-so slightly risque movie-stills of each story's most dramatic moments---the kiss, the temptation, the horrible realization). The magazine personalized issues that were hotly debated in Jazz Age America (dancing, drinking, partying, petting) and offered a unique working-class perspective on issues that were not necessarily unique to the working class. Sensational, emotional, and controversial, ''True Story'' disseminated tales of sex, sin and redemption that seemingly revealed the ubiquity of modern sexual and social "irregularity." Most educated observers hated the magazine, figuring that it depicted the worst aspect of the "revolution in manners and morals" that occurred in the 1920s. But workaday America loved the new confessional magazine.〔 The formula has been characterized as "sin-suffer-repent": the heroine violates standards of behavior, suffers as a consequence, learns her lesson and resolves to live in light of it, unembittered by her pain.〔Maureen Honey, ''Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender and Propaganda during World War II'', p 141-43, ISBN 0-87023-453-6〕 Advertisers were at first reluctant to buy ads, even as the circulation grew, but by 1928, many major companies placed ads, which copied the style of "short words and shorter sentences" and also imitated the sensational style.〔Roland Marchand, ''Advertising the American Dream: Making Way For Modernity 1920-40'' p56 ISBN 0-520-05253-6〕 "Because I Confessed. . . I found the Way To Happiness" titled an Eagle Brand Condensed Sweetened Milk ad for a cookbook; the title character confessed to a married friend that a man would never propose to her because he wanted a good girl, who could cook, and received the advertised cookbook as a loan, using it to win him.〔Roland Marchand, ''Advertising the American Dream: Making Way For Modernity 1920-40'' p57 ISBN 0-520-05253-6〕 "Some Wives Do It, But I Wouldn't Dare" advertised Wheatena; the narrator would never dare send her husband off without a good breakfast.〔Roland Marchand, ''Advertising the American Dream: Making Way For Modernity 1920-40'' p58 ISBN 0-520-05253-6〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「True Story (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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