
doi: 10.58079/mxq5
handle: 20.500.13089/mxq5
In mid-May 1968, the Syndicat du Livre (Printers Union), to which the majority of the workers in the printing plants and paper industries belonged, joined the general movement. This meant the strikes now directly affected the news magazines of the time, in particular Paris Match, which ceased publication for four consecutive weeks. When the leading weekly news magazine of the day returned to the newsstands, it went back over events that dated in part from one month earlier. On June 15, the editors constructed a retrospective narrative of ‘May ’68’ in an issue that presented a historicizing reading of the spring’s events, despite the fact that some of the movements in question were still underway. Reinforced by a formal presentation that was highly unusual for the magazine – a departure partially necessitated by disruptions connected with the strikes taking place at the printing plants – this media construction reveals the effort that went into designing the issue as a whole. It thus helps to show how the magazine’s editorial and ideological aims were expressed in the narrative presented as well as in the formal decisions supporting it, the two aspects working together to produce an overarching media system: the forme magazine.
Mi-mai 1968, le syndicat du livre auquel sont affiliés la plupart des ouvriers de l’imprimerie et des industries du papier rejoint le mouvement général. Les grèves affectent alors directement la presse magazine d’actualité de l’époque, en particulier Paris Match qui ne paraît pas pendant quatre semaines consécutives. Quand le plus important hebdomadaire d’actualité d’alors reparaît, il revient sur des événements datant pour certains d’un mois. La rédaction construit, dès le 15 juin, un récit rétrospectif de « Mai 68 » dans un numéro qui propose une lecture historicisante des événements du printemps, alors que certains mouvements se poursuivent. Porté par un traitement formel inhabituel pour le magazine, pour partie contraint par les perturbations liées aux grèves des imprimeries, cette médiatisation des événements permet de percevoir le travail d’élaboration d’ensemble du numéro. Elle met ainsi en lumière comment les intentions éditoriales et idéologiques de la rédaction du magazine s’expriment à travers le récit proposé des événements, porté par les choix formels avec lesquels il s’imbrique en un dispositif médiatique global : la forme magazine.
History, Paris-Match, media, presse, photographie, May 68, Cultural History, photography, [SHS.INFO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences, color, photojournalism, histoire, Mai 68, [SHS.HIST] Humanities and Social Sciences/History, photojournalisme, [SHS.ART] Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art history, [SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences, couleur
History, Paris-Match, media, presse, photographie, May 68, Cultural History, photography, [SHS.INFO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences, color, photojournalism, histoire, Mai 68, [SHS.HIST] Humanities and Social Sciences/History, photojournalisme, [SHS.ART] Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art history, [SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences, couleur
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