Humor, entertainment, and popular culture during World War I / edited by Clémentine Tholas-Disset and Karen A. Ritzenhoff. Humor, entertainment, and popular culture during World War 1 Humor, entertainment, and popular culture during World War one

Collection type	Library
Author	Tholas-Disset, Clémentine., editor.; Ritzenhoff, Karen A., editor.;
Call Number	940.31 H925
Document type	Monograph
Year	2015. 015
Pagination	xvi, 288 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan,
Note	Formerly CIP. Includes bibliographical references and index. "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 gen eral public behind the war effort as well as to strengthen the bonds between the home and the battlefront"--
Place made	New York, NY

Abstract

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Movies to Please? Laughter, Diversion, and Nationhood in Great War Films -- 1.Alf''s Button (1920): Comedy in the Trenches / Lawrence Napper -- 2.Body Politics: National Identity, Performance, and Modernity in Maciste Alpino (1916) / Francesco Pitassio -- 3.Hoaxes, Ballyhoo Stunts, War, and Other Jokes: Humor in the American Marketing of Hollywood War Films during the Great War / Fabrice Lyczba -- 4.Johanna Enlists (1918): An Elliptic and Comic Portrayal of the Great War in Motion Pictures / Clementine Tholas-Disset -- pt. II A War of Witty Words and Images: Novels, Newspapers, and Illustrations -- 5.War Memoir as Entertainment: Walter Bloem''s Vormarsch (1916) / Jakub Kazecki -- 6.Nature and Functions of Humor in Tren ch Newspapers (1914--1918) / Koenraad Du Pont -- 7.The Nuanced Comic Perspectives of the Cartoons in Mr. Punch''s History of the Great War / Renee Dickason -- 8.World War I in Bande Dessinee: La Semaine de Suzette and the Birth of a Breton Heroine at War! / Anne Cirella-Urrutia -- 9.Marianne in the Trenches: Typology and Iconographic Polysemy of Marianne between 1914 and 1918 / Laurent Bihl -- pt. III Entertaining on Stage: Pleasurable and Political Live Performances -- 10.The Range of Laughter: First Pers on Reports from Entertainers of the Over There Theatre League / Felicia Hardison Londre -- 11."You Can''t Help Laughing, Can You?" Humor and Symbolic Empowerment in British Music Hall Song during the Great War / John Mullen -- 12.J. M. Barrie and World War I / Jenna L. Kubly -- pt. 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 / Amy D. Wells -- 14.Chunder Goes Forth: Humor, Adver tising, and the Australian Nation in the Bulletin during World War I / Robert Crawford -- 15.Mobilizing Morale: At the Front in a Flivver with the American Ambulanciers / T. Adrian Lewis -- 16.Silencing Laughter: Pioneering Director Lois Weber and the Unc anny Gaze in Silent Film / Karen A. Ritzenhoff.