This thesis examines covers of Elle fashion magazine, that comes out in different countries in the world, using chosen theories of cultural differences. The aim of this thesis is to answer a question whether fashion industry reflects cultural specifics of each country or if its a unifying type of (sub)culture itself. Theoretical part shows an overview of approaches to cultural differences and discusses how could these diffe-rences show themselves in fasion industry. Practical part - on samples of Elle fashion magazine covers - analyzes aspects chosen based on literature review.

The thesis entitled Comparative Semiotic Analysis of Czech and Korean version of Elle Magazine Advertisings deals with the comparison of advertisings in the Czech and South Korean versions of global lifestyle magazine ELLE in terms of semiotic analysis. The thesis is structured in classical terms with theoretical starting points representing three key areas needed for analysis. The first part deals with the concept of the media, media product and its content. It also provides information about the ELLE magazine and its internationalization with special emphasis on South Korean cultural specificities. Also it cannot be forgotten the chapter devoted to the theory of socail construction of reality based on the work of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. The second part is key because it brings knowledge about the semiotics and the main representatives of the field. The thesis thus represents Charles Sanders Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure and especially the mythology of Roland Barthes. The last theoretical part looked at the essence of marketing communication and advertising and the use of celebrities in advertising campaigns. The analysis part as based on the theoretical basis focuses on the semiotic analysis of advertisements targeting the Czech and South Korean markets, with almost 470 campaigns in the...

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur omslagen på ELLE Sverige såg ut före och efter #metoo. #metoo är en rörelse som tar ställning mot sexuella trakasserier och fick stor internationell spridning den 15 oktober 2017. Metoderna som vi använde för att undersöka syftet var en kvantitativ innehållsanalys och därefter en semiotisk bildanalys. Undersökningsobjektet för studien var ELLE Sverige, som är Sveriges största modemagasin. För att kunna utläsa om det finns visuella mönster på omslagen, har vi först använt oss av kvantitativ innehållsanalys. Därefter gjordes ett urval av det mest samt det minst representativa omslaget utifrån tio analysfrågor. De fyra omslagen analyserades djupare med en semiotisk bildanalys. Resultatet visade att det var större likheter än skillnader mellan omslagen, även i jämförelse mellan perioden före och efter #metoo. Gemensamt för de båda representativa omslagen var främst att modellerna var unga och för de icke representativa omslagen var modellerna äldre än normen.

Submitted by Marlene Aparecida de Souza Cardozo (mcardozo@pucsp.br) on 2017-01-12T12:17:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Liana Costa do Carmo.pdf: 30176712 bytes, checksum: 21c5b2d4048185a78431988a191bf657 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-12T12:17:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Liana Costa do Carmo.pdf: 30176712 bytes, checksum: 21c5b2d4048185a78431988a191bf657 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-06 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research aims to investigate how Elle Brazil magazine resizes its enunciation mechanisms on multiple platforms throughout the assembly of their transmedia project. Founded in 1945 in France and launched in 1986 in Brazil, Elle Brazil is a women's magazine, which its main thematic fields are fashion, beauty, lifestyle and health (fitness). The publication operates nowadays on the production and distribution of content on different platforms involving both printed and digital editions, a page in the website M de Mulher, from Editora Abril, and profiles on social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and Periscope. This work intends to exam how Elle Brazil magazine operates the enunciation mechanisms in each media platform of its transmedia project. It also seeks to understand how the aesthesic component acts in the resizing of such mechanisms, and how the discursive interactions occur on every platform that are part of the transmedia project and that also delimit the visibility schemes involved in the performance of readers in such medias. The research starts from the hypothesis that the multiple enunciation platforms of Elle Brazil configure a transmedia narrative. It also rises the issues that each media has a distinct enunciation process; that the discursive interactions based on transitivity relationships are what enables the construction of transmedia narratives and that, in the case of transmedia narrative elaborated by Elle Brazil, the make feel goes beyond a simple reactive adjustment. The analysis is based on the theoretical and methodological framework of the Discursive Semiotics of Algirdas Julien Greimas; the Sociosemiotics of Eric Landowski, focusing on his studies on regimes of interaction, and the Plastic Semiotics, developed by authors such as Jean-Marie Floch and Ana Claudia de Oliveira. For the understanding of the enunciation processes in different medias, the studies of Jose Luiz Fiorin are prioritized and to approach the concept of transmediation, Yvana Fechine's and Henry Jenkins's research. The delimitation of the corpus was chosen from the media coverage of Elle Brazil on the Sao Paulo Fashion Week 2016 (SPFW N41) and was organized by aspectual categories which ultimately guided the analysis of each media platform and its operations within the transmedia project. The investigation of the behaviour of each media of Elle Brazil while covering the SPFW N41 showed a greater predisposition to subjectivity within their strategies of enunciation, as well as the presence of discursive interactions based on transitivity and visibility relations anchored in a wanting to be seen / Esta pesquisa busca investigar de que forma a revista Elle Brasil redimensiona os mecanismos de enunciação em múltiplas plataformas na construção do seu projeto transmídia. Criada em 1945, na França, e lançada em 1988 no Brasil, Elle Brasil é uma revista feminina que tem como principais temáticas moda, beleza, estilo de vida e saúde (fitness). A publicação atua hoje a partir da produção e distribuição de conteúdo em diferentes plataformas que envolvem edições impressa e digital, uma página no portal M de Mulher, da editora Abril, e perfis nas redes sociais Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat e Periscope. Objetiva-se aqui examinar como a revista Elle Brasil trabalha os mecanismos de enunciação em cada plataforma midiática do seu projeto transmídia. Também se busca compreender de que maneira o componente estésico atua na dimensão de tais mecanismos, como se dão as interações discursivas em cada plataforma que compõe o projeto transmídia e delimitar os regimes de visibilidade envolvidos na atuação dos leitores em tais mídias. A pesquisa parte da hipótese que as múltiplas plataformas de enunciação de Elle Brasil a configuram como uma narrativa transmídia. Também se adotam como hipóteses a inferência de que cada mídia possui um processo de enunciação distinto; de que são as interações discursivas baseadas em relações de transitividade que possibilitam a própria construção de narrativas transmídias e de que, no caso da narrativa transmídia construída por Elle Brasil, tal fazer sentir vai além de um simples ajustamento reativo. A análise do objeto utiliza o arcabouço teórico-metodológico da Semiótica Discursiva de Algirdas Julien Greimas; da Sociossemiótica de Eric Landowski, priorizando os seus estudos sobre regimes de interação, e da Semiótica Plástica, desenvolvida por autores como Jean¬ Marie Floch e Ana Claudia de Oliveira. Para a compreensão dos processos enunciativos nas diferentes mídias, são priorizados OS estudos de José Luiz Fiorin e, para a abordagem do conceito de transmidiação, as pesquisas de Yvana Fechine e Henry Jenkins. A delimitação do corpus deu-se a partir da cobertura jornalística de Elle Brasil no São Paulo Fashion Week 2016 (SPFW N41) e foi organizada por meio de categorias aspectuais que orientaram, em última instância, a análise de cada plataforma midiática e o exame da sua atuação dentro do projeto transmídia. A investigação do comportamento de cada mídia de Elle Brasil durante a cobertura do SPFW N41 revelou uma maior propensão à subjetividade dentro de suas estratégias enunciativas, bem com a presença de interações discursivas baseadas em uma maior transitividade e relações de visibilidade ancoradas em um querer ser visto

Lifestyle magazines portray women in different manners and have an influence on how media consumers create self-images. The importance of knowing how different visual representation of the female acts out in magazines with large target audiences is therefore of weight for the magazines’ readers to understand. This thesis analyze how the two lifestyle magazines ELLE and LOVE portrays women in images and how they in turn create ideal images of women. The thesis has been conducted through a qualitative analysis of 5 images from each magazine that represents the magazines artistic styles. The theories used in this study are semiotic image analysis and visual text analysis viewed from a gender- and discourse perspective. The conclusion of this thesis is that ELLE portrays women as strong, happy and feminine, with at tendency towards androgyny, while LOVE describes women as inferior and sexual objects constructed for the male gaze. The magazines, which belong to a classic- respectively a post-modern genre within lifestyle magazines, thereby switch places with each other and becomes each other’s counterparts.

Theoretical part of diploma thesis Comparative quantitative content analysis of photos from Timeline regional Facebook pages of ELLE Magazine explores the theory of visual culture, what kind of role pictures or photos play in contemporary digital age. Also Facebook online marketing and Facebook pages are described. The third chapter of thesis looks into history of global trade brand ELLE Magazine and it describes the owners of brand-license in examined regional countries. The last theoretical section explores a globalization of communication including magazine trade and the Internet. The thesis also contains research review of contemporary studies with similar topic. Methodological part firstly describes a content analysis and its aplication on research of photos. Secondly a diploma research with main reseach question: Are regional differences in thematic composition of published photos on facebook pages of ELLE magazines?

Många företag ger i dag ut tidningar med journalistiskt material till sina kunder, så kallade kundtidningar. Något som är unikt för dessa är deras tryggade ekonomi och att de ska främja ett företag med hjälp utav mer material än bara reklam. Fenomenet är inte nytt, utan har existerat sedan mitten av nittonhundratalet, men föga forskning finns kring kundtidningars innehåll och funktion, och vad som skiljer dem från vanliga populärkulturella tidningar. Detta ville vi med denna uppsats försöka undersöka och den valda inriktningen är kundtidningar som ges ut av modeföretag. Denna studie har analyserat innehållet i fyra företagsutgivna tidningar (varav en hybrid) och tre förlagsutgivna tidningar i modebranschen. Analysen utgjordes av två delar; en kvantitativ textanalys, där antal texttyper har räknats, samt en kvalitativ innehållsanalys, där frågor har ställts till materialet. Dessutom har vi även placerat in tidningarna längs Colin Sparks innehålls-axlar, som är till för att konkretisera olika tidningstyper. Resultatet visar att kundtidningarna främst består av intervjuer med människor, som ett sätt att skapa igenkänning och en relation med läsarna, samtidigt som de informerar om sina produkter. Någon renodlad reklam förekommer nästan inte alls i kundtidningarna. I vissa av de de förlagsutgivna tidningarna finns dock så mycket annonser att det journalistiska materialet till viss mån anpassar sig efter annonsörerna En konklusion blir att kundtidningar, som ej är beroende av annonsering, kan framställa ett innehåll som är mer anpassad för deras målgrupp. Uppsatsens slutsats blir dock att det finns en tydlig gränsdragning mellan vad som är en kundtidning och vad som är en modetidning då det inte går att bortse från att kundtidningarnas avsikt är att vara reklam oavsett kvalité på innehåll. Men i viss mån liknar de olika tidningarna varandra över gränserna, och modetidningarna känns ibland mer reklaminriktade än kundtidningarna på grund av sitt krav på att anpassa innehållet efter annonsörer.

Avec l'arrivée du magazine Elle Vietnam en 2010, une nouvelle figure internationale de la presse magazine féminine haut-de-gamme apparaît au Vietnam. Avec la politique du Đổi Mới (Renouveau) lancée dans les années 1980, le Vietnam se tourne vers la « modernité». Elle, créé dans les années 1950 en France, se tourne vers les femmes modernes, tournées vers l'international, le luxe, la beauté. C'est cet objectif de déploiement de la marque internationale Elle au sein de ce contexte politico-économique que nous avons questionné. Comment les acteurs locaux du magazine Elle Vietnam adaptent-ils la marque du magazine Elle dans le marché local ? Nous avons inscrit notre réflexion dans la compréhension de ce « réservoir mythologique » cher à Roland Barthes, mais cette fois-ci, à la lumière des producteurs et référentiels vietnamiens. / With the new Doi Moi policy launched in the eighties in Vietnam, Vietnam created a new environment geared towards modernity. In 2010, Elle Vietnam stepped up in Vietnam as a new women's magazine international leader, as a branch of Elle, a French women's magazine dedicated to modern, international, beautiful women as well as luxury. We will focus our developments on the framework that led to "modernity" in Vietnam, as well as the international brand designed by Elle Vietnam. Also, how do the Vietnamese producers adapt to the global brand Elle expansion? With the point of view of Vietnamese producers, we will focus our developments on the understanding of what Roland Barthes once called a “mythological tank”.

Diploma Thesis Celebrity Marketing as a Tool for Marketing Communication: A Comparison of the Attitudes of the Brands Lancôme and Estée Lauder addresses the phenomenon of celebrity marketing and also how these brands work with celebrities in their advertising campaigns. The thesis is opened by a theoretical chapter that deals with the concept of celebrity, history of celebrity and celebrity marketing as well. It deals with the theories of choice of celebrities, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of using famous faces in the campaigns. In the descriptive part, there are descripted selected brands, their history, identity and ways of their working with the celebrities. The analytical part of the thesis examines how are celebrities used by both brands. For the analysis, the printed magazine (Elle, Marianne and Marie Claire) and the advertisements inside were selected. The main focus is on determining whether the celebrities are really used by the brands and how. It is believed that the brands use celebrities, but each brand works differently with them. The work primarily uses the methods of quantitative content analysis, but part of the research is also qualitative. The main goal of the thesis is to find out to what extent celebrities are used in the marketing campaigns of both brands and...

Portraits of the Marquise de Maintenon by Louis Ferdinand Elle II and Pierre Mignard are frequently reproduced in the various factual and fictional biographies of Maintenon, but have only been significantly mentioned by art historians in broader studies of the period or in comparison to other portraits. In this thesis, these portraits will be significantly and singularly addressed in a larger study of Maintenon as patron. Both portraits have connections to events occurring in the life of Maintenon at the time of their creation and can be clearly understood as representations of her intended public identity. In addition, each seems to have an interesting relationship to both negative contemporary criticism of Maintenon and to her subsequent legacy. The chapters are ordered chronologically and each involves a discussion of the meaningful visual elements in each portrait. As the earliest portrait that can be firmly considered part of Maintenon's constructed public identity, Louis Elle's Marquise de Maintenon and her Niece is the focus of the first chapter. An analysis of the many possible layers of meaning within this portrait is discussed in relation to Maintenon's complicated legacy. The second chapter centers upon revealing the original function of Mignard's Marquise de Maintenon as St. Frances of Rome and its relationship to the controversy involving Quietism with which Maintenon was involved at the time of the portrait's creation. In the final chapter, the way in which these portraits influence Maintenon's legacy is analyzed. Finally, in the conclusion, the obstacles involved in the study of representations of Maintenon are discussed and suggestions are made of issues requiring further study.