Imagined Fronts: The Great War and Global Media
Benson, Timothy O. / Govan, Michael / Cabanes, Bruno / Das, Santanu / Kaes, Anton / Sammons, Jeffrey T.
How the first global media war impacted art, graphic design and cinema, from Otto Dix to Kathe KollwitzThe media spectacle in which we live today has origins in the Great War (1914‿18) and the burgeoning mediascape of newspapers, ephemera, photography and the new medium of cinema that made it the first global media war. The war‿s battlefields and contingent spaces became perhaps the most international human endeavor hitherto undertaken, with m...