International library of twentieth century history
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Prologue: 'Power and Persuasion': Propaganda into the; Part One The First World War and inter-war period; Introduction; 1 Strategy and propaganda: Lord Kitchener, the retreat from Mons and the Amiens Dispatch, August-September 1914; 2 'Thank God for the French Army': Churchill on the French Army between the two world wars; 3 Art under dictatorship: Propaganda, plunder and provenance; Part Two The Second World War; Introduction
11 The British Council behind the Iron Curtain: Cultural propaganda in early Cold War Poland12 From Civil War to Cold War: The Model Worker in Chinese film propaganda; 13 Counter-propaganda: Cases from US public diplomacy and beyond; 14 'Men of Action': Printed propaganda in the recruitment of the regular British armed forces, 1960-85; 15 Love, Hate and Propaganda: Reflections on the making of a documentary series; Epilogue: 'We are all propagandists now': Propaganda in the twenty-first century; Select Bibliography; Index
4 'False hopes and airy visions'? Dylan Thomas and British film propaganda in the Second World War5 Hitchcock as propagandist; 6 The films we forgot to remember: The other side of Second World War propaganda; 7 The Special Operations Executive and covert propaganda during the Greco-Italian War, 1940-1; 8 The interplay between diplomacy and propaganda: The Foreign Office and the discovery of the Katyn massacre, 1943; Part Three Postwar and Cold War; Introduction; 9 A wartime medical experiment as propaganda: The malaria case; 10 The Undefeated: Propaganda, rehabilitation and post-war Britain
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"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.