War and Semiotics (eBook, ePUB)

Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence
Redaktion: Jacob, Frank

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The semiotic systems of wars are central to the discussion of the contributions within this volume, which highlight the interrelationship of semiotic systems and their constructions during wars in different periods of history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000330625
• Artikelnr.: 60710620

Autorenporträt

Frank Jacob is Professor of Global History at Nord University, Norway. He received his PhD in Japanese Studies from Erlangen University in 2012 and previously held positions at the University of Würzburg, Germany (2013/14) and the City University of New York, USA (2014-2018).

Inhaltsangabe

War and Semiotics, War Semiotics, and the Semiotics of War: An
Introduction; Part I: War, Semiotics, and the Question of Interpretation;
1. Media Constructions of War and Peace during the War of the Spanish
Succession; 2. The Red Cross "Shield": The Semiotic Duality of the Red
Cross during the Occupation of Norway, 1940-1945; 3. The Semiotics of
Collaboration; Part II: War, Semiotics, and Identity Constructions; 4.
(Re-)Negotiating Internment: Language, Semiotics and the German Internment
Experience in the United States during the First World War; 5. The Semiotic
Construction of Judeo-Bolshevism in Germany, 1918-1933; 6. The Semiotics of
British Print Propaganda in Spain During the Second World War; 7. The
Semiotics of Collaboration and Resistance During the Nazi German Occupation
of Norway 1940-45; 8. Postage Stamps, War Memory and Commemoration: A Case
Study of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971; 9. Semiotics Beyond Agency:
Violence and Meaning in the Theater of War; Part III: War, Semiotics, and
Politics; 10. "National Decay and National Rebirth": The Semiotics of
Quisling's Conception of History; 11. Legitimate or Improper Economic
Collaboration? The Struggle About the Past After the German Occupation of
Norway; 12. Eastern Europe in the Shadow of a Propaganda War: Józef
Mackiewicz and Totalitarian Propaganda; Epilogue: War Semiotics in the
Post-Cold War World; 13. Brinkmanship: A Cold War Parody of Statesmanship