Imperialism and popular culture
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Imperialism and popular culture
(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)
Manchester University Press, c1986
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical notes and index
Series title on backcover: Studies in imperialism
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. This text examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times - in the theatre, "ethnic" shows, juvenile literature, education and the iconography of popular art. Several chapters look beyond World War I, when the most popular media, cinema and broadcasting, continued to convey an essentially late-19th-century world view, while government agencies like the Empire Marketing Board sought to convince the public of the economic value of empire. Youth organizations, which had propagated imperialist and militarist attitudes before the war, struggled to adapt to the new internationalist climate. -- .
Table of Contents
- Patriotism and Empire - music hall entertainment, 1870-1914, Penny Summerfield
- "Up Guards and At Them!" - British imperialism and popular art, 1880-1914, John O. Springhall
- of England, home and duty - the image of England in Victorian and Edwardian juvenile fiction, J.S. Bratton
- showbiz imperialism - the case of Peter Lobengula, Ben Shepard
- "The grit of our forefathers: - invented traditions, propaganda and imperialism, J.A. Mangan
- "Boy's Own" empire - feature films and imperialism in the 1930s, Jeffrey Richards
- "In touch with the infinite": the BBC and the Empire, 1923-53, John M. MacKenzie
- "Bringing the Empire alive": - the Empire Marketing Board and imperial propaganda, 1926-33, Stephen Constantine
- citizens of Empire - Baden-Powell, scouts and guides, and an imperial ideal, Allen Warren.
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