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Aesthetic Theory
Aestheticism
Alfred Hitchcock
Anti-imperialism
Atrocity propaganda
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Aventure Malgache
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Citizen Kane
Code word (figure of speech)
Colonialism
Coventry Patmore
Cultural hegemony
Culture and Society
Culture industry
D. H. Lawrence
Decolonization
Defamiliarization
E. M. Forster
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Essay
Ford Madox Ford
Frantz Fanon
Herbert Read
High modernism
Ideology
Imperialism
Information overload
Information Research Department
Jacques Ellul
Jingoism
Joseph Conrad
Journalese
Journalism
Literary modernism
Literature
Lytton Strachey
Mark Twain
Mass society
Melodrama
Ministry of propaganda
Modernism
Modernity
Narrative
Nationalism and Culture
Nazi propaganda
Objet d'art
Orientalism
Orwellian
Politics and the English Language
Poster
Postmodernism
Propaganda
Propaganda techniques
Radical egalitarianism
Radio propaganda
Rhetoric
Richard Aldington
Romanticism
Sensation novel
Sound effect
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Sullivan's Travels
Terence
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
The Voyage Out
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Virginia Woolf
Wellington House
Winston Smith
Woolf
World War I
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- ISBN 9780691138459
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 05 Oct 2008
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Though often defined as having opposite aims, means, and effects, modernism and modern propaganda developed at the same time and influenced each other in surprising ways. The professional propagandist emerged as one kind of information specialist, the modernist writer as another. Britain was particularly important to this double history. By secretly hiring well-known writers and intellectuals to write for the government and by exploiting their control of new global information systems, the British in World War I invented a new template for the manipulation of information that remains with us to this day. Making a persuasive case for the importance of understanding modernism in the context of the history of modern propaganda, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda also helps explain the origins of today's highly propagandized world. Modernism, Media, and Propaganda integrates new archival research with fresh interpretations of British fiction and film to provide a comprehensive cultural history of the relationship between modernism and propaganda in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century.
From works by Joseph Conrad to propaganda films by Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, Mark Wollaeger traces the transition from literary to cinematic propaganda while offering compelling close readings of major fiction by Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce.
Mark Wollaeger is professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of "Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism", the editor of "James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Casebook", and coeditor of "Joyce and the Subject of History".
