During the Second World War, the war publicity machine widely trumpeted the names of Allied military commanders. In its putative morale-buil...

In Friedrich A. Kittler’s Gramophone, Film, Typewriter war occupies a central place, serving as a crucial factor in media transformation. K...

In my last entry I wrote about Casablanca (1942) as an example of wartime propaganda, about how the film enacted the ideological need to va...

The effect of World War II on jazz music was to render the modernist values jazz had come to represent in the 1920s and 30s—individualism an...