Humor, entertainment, and popular culture during World War I
Machine generated contents note:Preface; Karen RandellIntroduction: Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture During World War One (WWI); Cle;mentine Tholas-Disset and Karen A. Ritzenhoff PART I: MOVIES TO PLEASE? LAUGHTER, DIVERSION, AND NATIONHOOD IN GREAT WAR FILMS 1. Alf's Button (1920): Co...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Palgrave Macmillan
2015
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
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World War, 1914-1918
> Social aspects
> Popular culture
> History
> Entertainment events
> Soldiers
> Recreation
> Morale
> Humor
> HISTORY / Military / World War I
> PERFORMING ARTS / Comedy
> SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
> Aufsatzsammlung
> Erster Weltkrieg
> Unterhaltungskunst
> Massenkultur
> Öffentliche Meinung
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| Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note:Preface; Karen RandellIntroduction: Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture During World War One (WWI); Cle;mentine Tholas-Disset and Karen A. Ritzenhoff PART I: MOVIES TO PLEASE? LAUGHTER, DIVERSION, AND NATIONHOOD IN GREAT WAR FILMS 1. Alf's Button (1920): Comedy in the Trenches; Lawrence Napper2. Body Politics: National Identity, Performance and Modernity in Maciste Alpino (1916); Francesco Pitassio and Giaime Alonge3. Hoaxes, ballyhoo stunts, war, and other jokes: humor in the American marketing of Hollywood war films During the Great War; Fabrice Lyzcba4. Johanna Enlists (1918) and the elliptic portrayal of the Great War in motion pictures; Cle;mentine Tholas-DissetPART II: A WAR OF WITTY WORDS AND IMAGES: NOVELS, NEWSPAPERS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS 5. War Memoir as Entertainment: Walter Bloem's Vormarsch (1916); Jakub Kazecki6. Nature and functions of humor in trench newspapers (1914-1918); Koenraad Du Pont7. The Nuanced Comic Perspectives of the Cartoons in Mr. Punch's History of the Great War; Rene;e Dickason8. When bande dessine;e Goes to War: La Semaine de Suzette and The Birth of A. Breton's Heroi;ne en ne;gatif; Anne Cirella-Urrutia9. Marianne in the Trenches; Laurent BihlPART III: ENTERTAINING ONM STAGE: PLEASURABLE AND POLITICAL LIVE PERFORMANCES 10. The Range of Laughter: First-Person Reports from Entertainers with the Over There Theatre League; Felicia Hardison Londre;11. Humor in British popular song during the Great War: music-hall laughter and trench humor; John Mullen12. J.M. Barrie and the First World War; Jenna L. KublyPART IV: PROMOTING WAR VALUES AND ROUTINE, COPING WITH A DIFFERENT SOCIAL ORDER 13. Sugary Celebrations and Culinary Activism: Sugar, Cooking, and Entertaining During World War One; Amy Wells14. Chunder Goes North: Humor, Advertising, and the Australian Nation in the Bulletin During World War One; Robert Crawford15. Mobilizing Morale: American Ambulance Drivers and the Road to U.S. Intervention; Adrian T. Lewis 16. Silencing Laughter: Pioneering Director Lois Weber and The Uncanny Gaze in Silent Film; Karen A. Ritzenhoff. Preface / Karen Randell -- Introduction : Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture During World War I (WWI) / Clémentine Tholas-Disset and Karen A. Ritzenhoff -- Alf's Button (1920) : Comedy in the Trenches / Lawrence Napper -- Body Politics: National Identity, Performance and Modernity in Maciste Alpino (1916) / Giaime Alonge and Francesco Pitassio -- Hoaxes, ballyhoo stunts, war, and other jokes : humor in the American marketing of Hollywood war films During the Great War / Fabrice Lyzcba -- Johanna Enlists (1918) : an elliptic and comic portrayal of the Great War in motion pictures / Clémentine Tholas-Disset -- War Memoir as Entertainment : Walter Bloem's Vormarsch (1916) / Jakub Kazecki -- Nature and functions of humor in trench newspapers (1914-1918) / Koenraad Du Pont -- The Nuanced Comic Perspectives of the Cartoons in Mr. Punch's History of the Great War / Renée Dickason -- World War I in bande dessinée : La Semaine de Suzette and The Birth of a Breton Heroine at war! / Anne Cirella-Urrutia -- Marianne in the Trenches / Laurent Bihl -- The Range of Laughter : First-Person Reports from Entertainers with the Over There Theatre League / Felicia Hardison Londré -- "You can't help laughing, can you?" : Humor and symbolic empowerment in British music hall song during the Great War / John Mullen -- J.M. Barrie and World War I / Jenna L. Kubly -- Sugary Celebrations and Culinary Activism : Sugar, Cooking, and Entertaining During World War I / Amy Wells -- Chunder Goes Forth : Humor, Advertising, and the Australian Nation in the Bulletin During World War I / Robert Crawford -- Mobilizing Morale : at the front in a flivver with the American ambulanciers / T. Adrian Lewis -- Silencing Laughter : Pioneering Director Lois Weber and The Uncanny Gaze in Silent Film / Karen A. Ritzenhoff "This collection explores how humor and entertainment were used internationally as strategies to help survive the chaos of the Great War by the soldiers in combat as well as civilians. The contributors in this volume analyze how wartime escapism expressed through recreational activities, the media or artistic creation served as tools of diversion, triggering national pride and hope, among the countries of the Entente or the Alliance powers. These mechanisms of survival also provided a way to unite the general public behind the war effort as well as to strengthen the bonds between the home and the battlefront"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVI, 288 S Ill 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781137449092 978-1-137-44909-2 1137449098 1-137-44909-8 |