The Mediatization of War and Peace : : The Role of the Media in Political Communication, Narratives, and Public Memory (1914–1939) /

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.

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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 orde...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 294 p.)
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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

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