The Mediatization of War and Peace : : The Role of the Media in Political Communication, Narratives, and Public Memory (1914–1939) / / ed. by Christoph Cornelissen, Marco Mondini.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Bernardini, Giovanni,; Boisserie, Étienne,; Bracco, Barbara,; Cau, Maurizio,; Cornelissen, Christoph,; D’Ottavio, Gabriele,; Haslinger, Peter,; Leidinger, Hannes,; Mazzini, Federico,; Mondini, Marco,; Neiberg, Michael S.,; Purseigle, Pierre,; Saltori, Mirko,; Smith, Leonard V.,; Ventrone, Angelo,; Ypersele, Laurence van,
• HerausgeberIn: Cornelissen, Christoph,; Mondini, Marco,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 294 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- On the Mediatization of War and Peace since 1918/19 -- I. Visualization of War – Narratives of War -- European War Literature in a Transnational Perspective -- When History Went Public -- Visualizing the War -- Mechanical Vaudeville -- II. Peace Illusions – The Media as Postwar Prophets -- “Where Did the Fourteen Points Go?” -- Woodrow Wilson in Europe: December 1918–February 1919 -- Asserting Czechoslovak Authority in Slovakia -- Conceiving a “Just” Peace for Trentino -- III. From Hope to Disenchantment -- The Media and the Transition from War to Peace -- Media, Propaganda, and Revolution -- The Italian Paradox: The Italian Media and the Myth of the Mutilated Victory -- Devastated Victors -- IV. The Memory of Peace and the Media – National and Regional Contexts -- Visions of Stability and Anxiety -- The Failed Exit from the War -- When the Decline of Europe Turned Topical -- The Execution of Cesare Battisti -- Contributors -- Index