Press Profiles
Age tendre, tête de bois was launched in 1962 and, initially at least, was the most dissenting youth publication on the market with its celebration of dissident teen icons, interviews with surly adolescents and features highlighting issues of conflict between the generations. Its early issues included several interviews with media personalities whom it regarded as deserving of an association with teen revolt. It was taken over by Dargaud in 1964 and transformed into the anodyne girl magazine Mademoiselle Age tendre.
Launched in 1928 Cinémonde was, for practically fifty years, French film's premier celebrity magazine. It focused on the careers and lives of the major French film stars of the day carrying exclusive interviews and news features promoting stars and their films to a readership of mainly female readers. It ceased publication in 1966.
Festival was launched in 1949 and ceased publication in 1963. Aimed at a primarily female readership the magazine's focused uniquely on the stars of French and Hollywood film with exclusive interviews and news features promoting an untarnished celebrity persona to an adoring public.
Gai-Pied, launched in 1979 transferred its publication to the Web in 1992. A gay lifestyle magazine for men it comprises news, leisure and lifestyle issues of relevance to the Francophone gay community.
Editor of Gala Philippe Labi describes the magazine as a news magazine for women with exclusive interviews, quality photography and leisure features designed to entertain, amuse and inform the reader. Stars and celebrities from cinema, show business, fashion and politics are generally featured under the magazine's 'actualités' section.
Monthly magazine for Lesbians comprising news, culture and leisure, a press review and listings of groups and associations. The magazine has been in existence for thirty years and is run entirely by volunteers.
Formerly Age Tendre, tête de bois the magazine was re-launched in 1964 as France's first girl 'teen' magazine. Pop and show business stars, lifestyle and leisure features characterised the publication. It folded in 1967, a casualty of youth's waning enthusiasm for 'yé-yé' and 'vedettes' towards the end of the 1960s.
L'Observateur was launched in April 1950 by Claude Bourdet, Gilles Martinet and Roger Stéphane after a disagreement on the editorial board of Combat. The magazine was re-launched as Le Nouvel Observateur in 1964 after a fresh injection of funds from business man Claude Perdriel. The magazine has since undergone numerous formula re-launches but remains consistent to a left-of-centre political perspective on current affairs. The magazine comprises a cultural section and occasionally carries interviews with cinema celebrities.
Pilote magazine was launched in 1959 by Radio Luxembourg, a consortium of bande dessinée writers and artists and two newspaper proprietors from Montluçon. In line with the changing tastes of an increasingly educated and politically literate 'lycéen' readership, the magazine evolved from its original formula as a pedagogical complement to the educational curriculum into a satirical commentary on contemporary mores and a platform for thematically and graphically innovative bande dessinée. Media lampooning was a favoured theme of the magazine's 'actualités' section and film celebrities were regularly the object of caricatural sketches.
Founded by Bernard Charère in 1952 a few months after Les Cahiers du cinéma and perceived as opposing the 'politique d'auteur' promoted by its competitor. The magazine comprises reviews, interviews and critical features on new films, technical and historical articles about cinema and a special 'dossier' on subjects deemed worthy of profound analysis.
Salut les copains was the French publishing sensation of the early 1960s. Launched in 1962 by Daniel Filippachi and the private radio station Europe 1 as a press support to the station's pop music programme of the same name, it achieved sales of a million copies within three months and sparked off a copy-cat trend for 'yé-yé' style publications in the rest of the French youth press. Not as radical as its chief competitor Age tendre, tête de bois, its content principally comprised pop music lyrics and interviews with stars from both music and film.
Monthly cinema periodical taken over by Emap in 1994. The magazine aims at a popular readership of 15-34 year olds and comprises films reviews, 'actualités' and news, profiles of stars and features on video, music and literature.
The publishing group La Vie catholique re-launched Radio-Cinéma-Télévision as Télérama in 1955. Its content was principally focused on the increasingly popular medium of television it also gave extensive coverage to radio and cinema and progressively broadened its scope to include other aspects of Francophone cultural expression. Today, the magazine's formula is broadly the same with the addition of a section on multimedia. The magazine's cinema section often carries exclusive interviews with cinema celebrities.
Chaque jour c'est un vrai scandale de ne pas lire Voici
Launched in 1987 Voici
prides itself on being a publication which writes about stars as they
really are and not as they would like to be perceived. It spurns the scheduled
interviews and staged events traditional to the 'star' press for scandal
mongering copy and clandestine photographs which, in the language of 'tous
les jours', reveals to the reader the murky underside of the glamour
industry. Of its three million readers, two million are female.
Launched in 1977 by Maurice Siégal VSD (Vendredi, Samedi, Dimanche) was taken over by Prisma Presse in 1996. The magazine comprises a news section, special reports, a lifestyle section and a section dedicated to leisure and culture. Stars are generally featured in the magazine's news section.