Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and Shaping the Twentieth Century

✍ Scribed by Mark Connelly; Jo Fox; Stefan Goebel; Ulf Schmidt (editors)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Propaganda has always played a key role in shaping attitudes during periods of conflict and the academic study of propaganda, commencing in earnest in 1915, has never really left us. We continue to want to understand propaganda’s inner-workings and, in doing so, to control and confine its influence. We remain anxious about pernicious information warfare campaigns, especially those that seemingly endanger liberal democracy or freedom of thought. What are the challenges, then, of studying propaganda studies in the twenty-first century? Much scholarship remains locked into the study of state-led campaigns, however an area of special concern in recent years has been the loss of official control over the basic instruments of mass communication. This has been seen in the rise of ‘fake news’ and the ability of non-state actors to influence political events. This volume presents the latest research in propaganda studies, featuring contributions from a range of leading scholars and covering the most cutting-edge scholarship in the study of propaganda from World War I to the present.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half title
Title
Copyrights
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Prologue: ‘Power and Persuasion’: Propaganda into the twenty-first century Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel and Ulf Schmidt
Part 1 The First World War and inter-war period
Introduction Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel and Ulf Schmidt
1 Strategy and propaganda: Lord Kitchener, the retreat from Mons and the Amiens Dispatch, August–September 1914 Stephen Badsey
2 ‘Thank God for the French Army’: Churchill on the French Army between the two world wars Antoine Capet
3 Art under dictatorship: Propaganda, plunder and provenance Ulf Schmidt and Katja Schmidt-Mai
Part 2 The Second World War
Introduction Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel and Ulf Schmidt
4 ‘False hopes and airy visions’? Dylan Thomas and British film propaganda in the Second World War Richard Taylor
5 Hitchcock as propagandist James Chapman
6 The films we forgot to remember: The other side of Second World War propaganda Jeffrey Richards
7 The Special Operations Executive and covert propaganda during the Greco-Italian War, 1940–1 Marina Petraki
8 The interplay between diplomacy and propaganda: The Foreign Office and the discovery of the Katyn massacre,1943 Gaynor Johnson
Part 3 Postwar and Cold War
Introduction Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel and Ulf Schmidt
9 A wartime medical experiment as propaganda: The malaria case Katja Schmidt-Mai and Jonathan D. Moreno
10 The Undefeated: Propaganda, rehabilitation and post-war Britain Julie Anderson
11 The British Council behind the Iron Curtain: Cultural propaganda in early Cold War Poland Edward Corse
12 From Civil War to Cold War: The Model Worker in Chinese film propaganda James Farley
13 Counter-propaganda: Cases from US public diplomacy and beyond Nicholas J. Cull
14 ‘Men of Action’: Printed propaganda in the recruitment of the regular British armed forces, 1960–85 Peter Johnston
15 Love, Hate and Propaganda: Reflections on the making of a documentary series Fabrice d’Almeida
Epilogue: ‘We are all propagandists now’: Propaganda in the twenty-first century David Welch
Select bibliography
Index