The mediatization of war and peace : the role of the media in political communication, narratives, and public memory (1914-1939) / Christoph Cornelissen, Marco Mondini (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cornelissen, Christoph, editor.

Mondini, Marco, editor.

Series:

Studies in early modern and contemporary European history ; Volume 2.

Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and war.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Mass media--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2021]

System Details:

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Summary:

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, fictional 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 finally, together with a widespread, new literary genre, the war memoirs, to shape the collective memory of the conflict 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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

3-11-070737-3