Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I [electronic resource] /
Tholas-Disset, Clémentine.author.
Ritzenhoff, Karen A.author.
Humor and entertainment were vital to the war effort during World War I. While entertainment provided relief to soldiers in the trenches, it also built up support for the war effort on the home front. This book looks at transnational war culture by examining seemingly light-hearted discourses on the Great War.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I (WWI); Part I Movies to Please? Laughter, Diversion, and Nationhood in Great War Films; 1 Alf's Button (1920): Comedy in the Trenches; 2 Body Politics: National Identity, Performance, and Modernity in Maciste Alpino (1916)*; 3 Hoaxes, Ballyhoo Stunts, War, and Other Jokes: Humor in the American Marketing of Hollywood War Films during the Great War; 4 Johanna Enlists (1918): An Elliptic and Comic Portrayal of the Great War in Motion Pictures
Part II A War of Witty Words and Images: Novels, Newspapers, and Illustrations5 War Memoir as Entertainment: Walter Bloem's Vormarsch (1916); 6 Nature and Functions of Humor in Trench Newspapers (1914-1918); 7 The Nuanced Comic Perspectives of the Cartoons in Mr. Punch's History of the Great War; 8 World War I in Bande Dessinée: La Semaine de Suzette and the Birth of a Breton Heroine at War!; 9 Marianne in the Trenches: Typology and Iconographic Polysemy of Marianne between 1914 and 1918; Part III Entertaining on Stage: Pleasurable and Political Live Performances
10 The Range of Laughter: First Person Reports from Entertainers of the Over There Theatre League11 "You Can't Help Laughing, Can You?" Humor and Symbolic Empowerment in British Music Hall Song during the Great War; 12 J. M. Barrie and World War I; Part 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 I; 14 Chunder Goes Forth: Humor, Advertising, and the Australian Nation in the Bulletin during World War I
15 Mobilizing Morale: At the Front in a Flivver with the American Ambulanciers16 Silencing Laughter:; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Humor and entertainment were vital to the war effort during World War I. While entertainment provided relief to soldiers in the trenches, it also built up support for the war effort on the home front. This book looks at transnational war culture by examining seemingly light-hearted discourses on the Great War.
Communication.
Motion pictures—History.
World War, 1939-1945.
Media and Communication.
Film History.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.