Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I

Preface; Karen Randell Introduction: Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture During World War One (WWI); Clémentine Tholas-Disset and Karen A. Ritzenhoff PART I: MOVIES TO PLEASE? LAUGHTER, DIVERSION, AND NATIONHOOD IN GREAT WAR FILMS 1. Alf's Button (1920): Comedy in the Trenches; Lawrence Napper 2. Body Politics: National Identity, Performance and Modernity in Maciste Alpino (1916); Francesco Pitassio and Giaime Alonge 3. Hoaxes, ballyhoo stunts, war, and other jokes: humor in the American marketing of Hollywood war films During the Great War; Fabrice Lyzcba 4. Johanna Enlists (1918) and the elliptic portrayal of the Great War in motion pictures; Clémentine Tholas-Disset PART II: A WAR OF WITTY WORDS AND IMAGES: NOVELS, NEWSPAPERS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS 5. War Memoir as Entertainment: Walter Bloem's Vormarsch (1916); Jakub Kazecki 6. Nature and functions of humor in trench newspapers (1914-1918); Koenraad Du Pont 7. The Nuanced Comic Perspectives of the Cartoons in Mr. Punch's History of the Great War; Renée Dickason 8. When bande dessinée Goes to War: La Semaine de Suzette and The Birth of A. Breton's Heroïne en négatif; Anne Cirella-Urrutia 9. Marianne in the Trenches; Laurent Bihl PART III: ENTERTAINING ONM STAGE: PLEASURABLE AND POLITICAL LIVE PERFORMANCES 10. The Range of Laughter: First-Person Reports from Entertainers with the Over There Theatre League; Felicia Hardison Londré 11. Humor in British popular song during the Great War: music-hall laughter and trench humor; John Mullen 12. J.M. Barrie and the First World War; Jenna L. Kubly PART IV: PROMOTING WAR VALUES AND ROUTINE, COPING WITH A DIFFERENT SOCIAL ORDER 13. Sugary Celebrations and Culinary Activism: Sugar, Cooking, and Entertaining During World War One; Amy Wells 14. Chunder Goes North: Humor, Advertising, and the Australian Nation in the Bulletin During World War One; Robert Crawford 15. Mobilizing Morale: American Ambulance Drivers and the Road to U.S. Intervention; Adrian T. Lewis 16. Silencing Laughter: Pioneering Director Lois Weber and The Uncanny Gaze in Silent Film; Karen A. Ritzenhoff