France at war in the twentieth century
Subtitle: propaganda, myth, and metaphor
By: edited by Valerie Holman, Deborah Kelly
Contributors: Holman, Valerie; Kelly, Debra
Series: Contemporary France -- v. 3; Contemporary France (Providence, R.I.) -- v. 3
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Propaganda, French -- History -- 20th century; France -- History, Military -- 20th century
Description: "France experienced four major conflicts in the fifty years between 1914 and 1964: two world wars, and the wars in Indochina and Algeria. In each the role of myth was intricately bound up with memory, hope, belief, and ideas of nation. This is the first book to explore how individual myths were created, sustained, and used for purposes of propaganda, examining in detail not just the press, radio, photographs, posters, films, and songs that gave credence to an imagined event or attributed mythical status to an individual, but also the cultural processes by which such artifacts were disseminated and took effect."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index