Modernism, media, and propaganda : British narrative from 1900 to 1945 /
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 particu...
| Основен автор: | Wollaeger, Mark A., 1957- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
℗♭2006.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=286651 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Modernism, media, and propaganda. |
| Резюме: |
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 t. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xxv, 335 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-322) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781400828623 1400828627 |