[Commlist] New book: World War I: Media, Entertainments & Popular Culture

We would like to bring attention to a publication which we hope will be 
of interest to researchers and students of media, journalism, film, 
cartoons, music, childrens literature, radio, ethics, propaganda, 
newspapers, heroines, espionage, romance, nationalism and pacifism 
during World War 1.


*World War I: Media, Entertainments & Popular Culture.*

Edited by Chris Hart. (2018). ISBN (pbk) 978-1-905984-21-3

*Contents*

*Introduction***

Christopher Hart

Chapter 1***What Shall We Tell the Children? The Great War, Propaganda, 
and British Children*

                         Michael Paris

Chapter 2***Remember Scarborough. Re-Active Propaganda as Natural ethics*

                         Christopher Hart

Chapter 3 *Causing Unnecessary Anxiety? British Newspapers and the Battle *

*                        of ****Jutland*

                         Guy Hodgson

Chapter 4 *Listening to ‘Concert of Europe’: Pioneering Radio Amateurs 
During *

*                        World War I*

                         Maria Rikitianskaia

Chapter 5 *The Role of Political Posters in Montenegro and Serbia during *

*                        World War I*

                         Andrijana Rabrenović

Chapter 6***Basque Writers’ Reportages in * */Eskualduna/**, during 
World War I *

                         Eneko Bidegain

Chapter 7 *How Local Newspapers Scooped the National Press to Tell the 
Truth about the First World                         War***

                         John Dilley and David Penman

Chapter 8 *Romance by Other Means: Scottish Popular Newspapers and the 
First *

*                        World War*

                         David Goldie

Chapter 9***“And Yet They Tell Us Not to Hate the Hun” Atrocity 
Propaganda, and War Patriotism in                         Winsor McCay’s 
**/The Sinking of the ‘Lusitania’/*

                         Jesús Jiménez-Varea and Antonio Pineda

Chapter**10***The Murdochs and Gallipoli: Entertainments in Service of Myth*

                         Tom D. C. Roberts

Chapter 11***All Quiet on the Musical Front? German Music Production as 
a Source *

*                        for a History of Attitudes of the First World War*
**

                         Dietrich Helms

Chapter 12***Englishness and the ‘Other’. Mata Hari and Edith Cavell* *On *

*                        Celluloid*

                         Rosie White

Chapter 13***Defining Musical ‘Germanness’. The Reciprocal Influences of 
Music *

*                        and National Identity Formation*

                         Lucy Claire Church

**

Chapter 14 *Dichotomies of Representation and Interpretation. A Pacifist’s *

*                        Story*

                         Sonja Andrew

**

The chapters in this volume have their origins in the conference /World 
War I: The Media, Entertainments & Popular Culture /held at the 
University of Chester between the 2^nd - 3^rd July 2015. The organisers 
and chairs of sessions were, including me, Jim Aulich, Manchester School 
of Art, Craig Horner, Manchester Metropolitan University, Carole 
O'Reilly, University of Salford, Nick Mansfield, UCLAN, Gaynor Bagnall, 
University of Salford, and Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, University of Liverpool.

This conference did not try to trivialise the First World War. Whether 
it was civilian, serviceman or servicewoman popular mass entertainments 
had a part to play in their lives. The conference was about the 
relationship between popular and mass entertainments during the war and 
the use of the war for mass audience productions.  It aimed to examine 
the role, form and development of entertainments created during and 
related to it, post-1918.  The music hall, the singers, performers, the 
cartoons, romantic novels, and cinema all had a place and role to 
contemporaries.  By 1915 many of these may have relayed the experience 
of war, and some provided the means to maintain morale and patriotism.  
Not all, however, supported the war.  After one year of the initial war, 
optimism was confronted with the realisation that this war was different 
to others -  the number of wounded and killed was shockingly high.  
English coastal towns were bombarded by German battleships, while other 
cities were bombed by German airships.  Given the reality of the war, 
the kinds of questions discussed include the following.  How did popular 
entertainments react to the war?  What were the dynamics, politics and 
reception of different positions?  In what ways did the form of mass 
entertainments change as the war progressed?  What role did technology 
have in disseminating entertainments?  How did commercial entertainment 
enterprises use the war to attract audiences?


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