Ebook: 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 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.;CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEGDEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Modernism and the Information-Propaganda Matrix; CHAPTER ONE: From Conrad to Hitchcock: Modernism, Film, and the Art of Propaganda; CHAPTER TWO: The Woolfs, Picture Postcards, and the Propaganda of Everyday Life; CHAPTER THREE: Impressionism and Propaganda: Ford's Wellington House Books and The Good Soldier; CHAPTER FOUR: Joyce and the Limits of Political Propaganda; CHAPTER FIVE: From the Thirties to World War II: Negotiating Modernism and Propaganda in Hitchcock and Welles; CODA; NOTES; INDEX.