The Mediatization of War and Peace
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Edited by:
Christoph Cornelissen
About this book
During the First World War, mass media achieved an enormous and continuously growing importance in all belligerent countries. Newspaper, illustrated magazines, comics, pamphlets, and instant books, fi ctional works, photography, and the new-born “theater of imagery”, the cinema, were crucial in order to create a heroic vision of the events, to mobilize and maintain the consensus on the war. But their role was pivotal also in creating the image of the war’s end and fi nally, together with a widespread, new literary genre, the war memoirs, to shape the collective memory of the confl ict for the next generations. Even before November 1918, the media raised high expectations for a multifaceted peace: a new global order, the beginning of a peaceful era, the occasion for a regenerating apocalypse. Likewise, in the following decades, particularly war literature and cinema were pivotal to reverse the icon of the Great War as an epic crusade and a glorious chapter of the national history and to create the hegemonic image of a senseless carnage. The Mediatization of War and Peace focalizes on the central role played by mass media in the tortuous transition to the post-war period as well as on the profound disenchantment generated by their prophesies.
Author / Editor information
Christoph Cornelissen and Marco Mondini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler – ISIG, Trento, Italia.
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I. Visualization of War – Narratives of War
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German Historians and Their Journalistic Work during the First World War and Its Aftermath Christoph Cornelissen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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World War I as a Caesura in the History of (Visual) Media: A Relativization Hannes Leidinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Popularization of Science and the Trivialization of War in the US (1915–1918) Federico Mazzini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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II. Peace Illusions – The Media as Postwar Prophets
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The American Media and the Shantung Controversy Michael S. Neiberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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The Mediazation of Radicalized Liberalism Leonard V. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Context and Obstacles in the Immediate Aftermath of the Great War Étienne Boisserie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Aspirations, Disputes, Boundaries Mirko Saltori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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III. From Hope to Disenchantment
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The Role of the Media in the Popular Violence of November 1918, Belgium Laurence van Ypersele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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France and the International Spread of Bolshevism in the Wake of World War I Giovanni Bernardini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Angelo Ventrone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Reconstruction and the Urban Transition from War to Peace in Western Europe Pierre Purseigle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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IV. The Memory of Peace and the Media – National and Regional Contexts
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The Mediatic Building of Nations and Border Regions, 1918–1930 Peter Haslinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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The Problematic Return of Veterans and War Wounded in the Media (1918–1945) Barbara Bracco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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From World War I to Peace Gabriele D’Ottavio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Representation and Memory of a Media Event Maurizio Cau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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