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Subtitle: World War I posters and visual culture
By: edited and with an introduction by Pearl James.
Series: Studies in war, society, and the military
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803226104
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Posters; War posters -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1914-1918 -- Art and the war; Visual communication -- History -- 20th century; Popular culture -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects; World War, 1914-1918 -- Propaganda
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Reading World War I posters / Pearl James; title: Imaginings of war : posters and the shadow of the lost generation / Jay Winter; title: pt. 1. War poster campaigns and images, comparative readings; title: Barbaric anti-modernism : representations of the "Hun" in Britain, North America, Australia, and beyond / Nicoletta F. Gullace; title: Chivalrous knights versus iron warriors : representations of the battle of materiel and slaughter in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940 / Stefan Goebel; title: Regression versus progression : fundamental differences in German and American posters of the First World War / Jakub Kazecki and Jason Lieblang; title: pt. 2. Envisioning the nation and imagining national aesthetics; title: Young blood : Parisian schoolgirls' transformation of France's Great War poster aesthetic / Mark Levitch; title: Race and empire in French posters of the Great War / Richard S. Fogarty; title: Images of racial pride : African American propaganda posters in the First World War / Jennifer D. Keene; title: Segodniashnii Lubok : art, war, and national identity / Andrew M. Nedd; title: pt. 3. Figuring the body in the context of war; title: Images of femininity in American World War I posters / Pearl James; title: Humanitarians and he-men : recruitment posters and the masculine ideal / Meg Albrinck; title: Iconography of injury : encountering the wounded soldier's body in American poster art and photography of World War I / John M. Kinder; title: Epilogue / Jeffrey T. Schnapp.