{"product_id":"picture-this-9780803226104","title":"Picture This","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays reveal the centrality of visual media, particularly the poster, within the specific national contexts of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States during World War I. Ultimately, posters were not merely representations of popular understanding of the war, but instruments influencing the reach, meaning, and memory of the war in subtle and pervasive ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a fine addition to the growing body of literature on this somewhat ephemeral form of graphic communication.\"—S. Skaggs, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers' comprehension of World War I posters will be enriched well beyond their most thorough visual observations.\"—Barbara Steinson, \u003ci\u003eAnnals of Iowa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Historians of war, politics, gender, culture, art, and literature will all benefit from the insights presented here.\"—David Welky, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePicture This\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful edited collection in which the whole adds up to a great deal more than the sum of its parts.\"—Karen Petrone, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Military History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Reading World War I Posters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePearl James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Imaginings of War: Posters and the Shadow of the Lost Generation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJay Winter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1. War Poster Campaigns and Images, Comparative Readings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Barbaric Anti-Modernism: Representations of the \"Hun\" in Britain, North America, Australia, and Beyond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicoletta F. Gullace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Chivalrous Knights versus Iron Warriors: Representations of the Battle of \u003ci\u003eMatériel\u003c\/i\u003e and Slaughter in Britain and Germany, 1914–1940\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStefan Goebel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Regression versus Progression: Fundamental Differences in German and American Posters of the First World War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJakub Kazecki and Jason Lieblang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2. Envisioning the Nation and Imagining National Aesthetics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Young Blood: Parisian Schoolgirls' Transformation of France's Great War Poster Aesthetic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Levitch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Race and Empire in French Posters of the Great War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard S. Fogarty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Images of Racial Pride: African American Propaganda Posters in the First World War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer D. Keene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Segodniashnii Lubok: Art, War, and National Identity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew M. Nedd\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3. Figuring the Body in the Context of War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Images of Femininity in American World War I Posters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePearl James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Humanitarians and He-Men: Recruitment Posters and the Masculine Ideal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeg Albrinck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Iconography of Injury: Encountering the Wounded Soldier's Body in American Poster Art and Photography of World War I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Kinder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeffrey T. Schnapp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405246112087,"sku":"9780803226104","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803226104.jpg?v=1730489264","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/picture-this-9780803226104","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}