Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Alf’s Button (1920): Comedy in the Trenches....Pages 23-40
Body Politics: National Identity, Performance, and Modernity in Maciste Alpino (1916)....Pages 41-57
Hoaxes, Ballyhoo Stunts, War, and Other Jokes: Humor in the American Marketing of Hollywood War Films during the Great War....Pages 59-75
Johanna Enlists (1918): An Elliptic and Comic Portrayal of the Great War in Motion Pictures....Pages 77-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
War Memoir as Entertainment: Walter Bloem’s Vormarsch (1916)....Pages 91-105
Nature and Functions of Humor in Trench Newspapers (1914–1918)....Pages 107-121
The Nuanced Comic Perspectives of the Cartoons in Mr. Punch’s History of the Great War....Pages 123-134
World War I in Bande Dessinée: La Semaine de Suzette and the Birth of a Breton Heroine at War!....Pages 135-150
Marianne in the Trenches: Typology and Iconographic Polysemy of Marianne between 1914 and 1918....Pages 151-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
The Range of Laughter: First Person Reports from Entertainers of the Over There Theatre League....Pages 169-179
“You Can’t Help Laughing, Can You?” Humor and Symbolic Empowerment in British Music Hall Song during the Great War....Pages 181-196
J. M. Barrie and World War I....Pages 197-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Sugary Celebrations and Culinary Activism: Sugar, Cooking, and Entertaining during World War I....Pages 211-223
Chunder Goes Forth: Humor, Advertising, and the Australian Nation in the Bulletin during World War I....Pages 225-243
Mobilizing Morale: At the Front in a Flivver with the American Ambulanciers....Pages 245-256
Silencing Laughter: Pioneering Director Lois Weber and the Uncanny Gaze in Silent Film....Pages 257-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-288