Reading Viz magazine: class, masculinity and protest in North East print culture since Thatcher

本文是对英国杂志《Viz》（1979 -）的首次学术研究。这是一部文化历史，将维兹置于20世纪70年代以来英格兰东北部社会和经济贫困的背景下，论证其作为对深化的新自由主义的抗议体现的功能。该项目利用档案收藏和采访，汇集了维兹的历史，这是一种激进现象，它塑造了人们对阶级、地区和性别的普遍看法。它还评估了viz对20世纪期刊的影响，证明了它的出现促成了英国杂志文化的一系列开创性转变。

This thesis is the first scholarly study of the British magazine Viz (1979 -). It is a cultural history whichsituates Viz in the context of the social and economic immiseration of North East England from the1970s onwards, arguing for its function as an embodiment of protest against deepeningneoliberalism. Drawing on archival holdings and interviews, the project assembles a history of Viz asa radical phenomenon which shaped popular perceptions of class, region and gender. It also assessesViz's impact on twentieth-century periodicals, demonstrating that its emergence precipitated a seriesof seminal shifts in British magazine culture.