Preface / Karen Randell -- Introduction : Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture During World War I (WWI) / Clémentine Tholas-Disset and Karen A. Ritzenhoff -- Alf's Button (1920) : Comedy in the Trenches / Lawrence Napper -- Body Politics: National Identity, Performance and Modernity in Maciste Alpino (1916) / Giaime Alonge and Francesco Pitassio -- Hoaxes, ballyhoo stunts, war, and other jokes : humor in the American marketing of Hollywood war films During the Great War / Fabrice Lyzcba -- Johanna Enlists (1918) : an elliptic and comic portrayal of the Great War in motion pictures / Clémentine Tholas-Disset -- War Memoir as Entertainment : Walter Bloem's Vormarsch (1916) / Jakub Kazecki -- Nature and functions of humor in trench newspapers (1914-1918) / Koenraad Du Pont -- The Nuanced Comic Perspectives of the Cartoons in Mr. Punch's History of the Great War / Renée Dickason -- World War I in bande dessinée : La Semaine de Suzette and The Birth of a Breton Heroine at war! / Anne Cirella-Urrutia -- Marianne in the Trenches / Laurent Bihl -- The Range of Laughter : First-Person Reports from Entertainers with the Over There Theatre League / Felicia Hardison Londré -- "You can't help laughing, can you?" : Humor and symbolic empowerment in British music hall song during the Great War / John Mullen -- J.M. Barrie and World War I / Jenna L. Kubly -- Sugary Celebrations and Culinary Activism : Sugar, Cooking, and Entertaining During World War I / Amy Wells -- Chunder Goes Forth : Humor, Advertising, and the Australian Nation in the Bulletin During World War I / Robert Crawford -- Mobilizing Morale : at the front in a flivver with the American ambulanciers / T. Adrian Lewis -- Silencing Laughter : Pioneering Director Lois Weber and The Uncanny Gaze in Silent Film / Karen A. Ritzenhoff.
Summary:
"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 general public behind the war effort as well as to strengthen the bonds between the home and the battlefront"-- Provided by publisher.
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