Juvenile Enculturation in a Time of Change: The Early Years of the <i>Boys’ Cinema Weekly</i>

ABSTRACT This article examines the launch and earliest years of the Boys’ Cinema Weekly (1919–1940): an adolescent-targeted British paper shaped by the conjunction of the growing social and economic influence of the motion picture industry, established publishing practices, and wider cultural forces. By analyzing its content and editorial rhetoric within the context of the entrepreneurial strategies and moral imperatives of its publisher, the Amalgamated Press, this article shows how Boys’ Cinema was designed to foster a process of juvenile enculturation that reinforced imperialist ideologies and traditionalist gender models while navigating the emerging landscape of American-influenced interwar modernity.