Appel à contributions pour le numéro « Mass Media and the Performance of War (1853-1918) » de la revue Early Popular Visual Culture (2025).

« The long 19th century saw the rise of distinctly ‘modern’ wars in their impact on the media and public opinion. Many historians have analysed the role of mass journalism and the growing awareness of media’s (allegedly) persuasive power that culminated in the broad institutionalization of official war propaganda in the early 20th century. This progressive narrative has largely focused on the press, with other technologies and forms of popular entertainment receiving less attention. This issue aims to offer a fine-grained picture of how various popular mass media and performances fostered new possibilities for imaging and imagining war from 1853 until 1918.

This call seeks contributions that explore various forms of war-as-entertainment in the second half of the 19th century, including (but not limited to) hippodramas, (moving) panoramas, tableaux vivants, variety acts and lantern lectures. Spectacles can represent contemporary conflicts, for instance, the Crimean War (1853-6), the Second Opium War (1856-60), the Anglo-Boer Wars (1880-1/1899-1902), the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5), the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), the First World War, and historical ones. »

Date limite de soumission : 1 mai 2024.

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