... modernist and propagandist film and media culture. Placing my narrative end point at wartime propaganda, my project creates a critical genealogy of spectatorial affect to examine the affinity and tension between commercially and politically oriented mass culture and their particular promises and stakes. Bu...

... Huimin 1928 Huoli yingxiong Zhang Huimin 1928 neoromanticism Zhang Huimin Affect Medium Intermediality Propaganda Spectatorship Chinese cinema Architecture wireless technology early television resonance It was New Year’s Eve 1927. Lu Mengshu, the editor in chief of the major film journal...

... Chusheng 1934 Ruan Lingyu Harris Kristine Roar China Tretyakov 1929 Tretyakov Sergei silent cinema intermediality Affect Medium Intermediality Propaganda Spectatorship Chinese cinema Architecture wireless technology early television “September 18,” “January 28”—machine guns, airplanes, bombs...

...Chapter 5 follows the migration of the Chinese film industry from Shanghai to Chongqing during the Sino-Japanese War. I examine the impact of the war and the rise of propaganda that initiated both a rethinking of film language and a reorientation of the cinematic medium in terms of simultaneous...

... in literature, film, fine art, wartime propaganda, and museum displays. Investigating cultural discourses that have taken shape around oil, the book composes the first sustained attempt to understand how petroleum has suffused the Western imagination. The chapters examine the oil culture nexus, beginning...

...This chapter presents the author’s reflections about legal abortion. She believes that opponents of legal abortion have been winning a psychological victory through propaganda. Their efforts has shifted the grounds of the abortion debate from a feminist, political issue affecting the condition...

...Chapter 6 complicates the claim of propaganda as a utopia media infrastructure by returning to individual films across the geopolitical division between Chongqing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. I illustrate how these films advance agitation in negotiate with earlier notions of affective spectatorship...

... complicates the paternalistic picture. Management used company houses and other products of its benevolence as weapons in a propaganda war. Other building types, such as boardinghouses and armories, found particular application during the strike. Much of the conflict played out in public space, revealing...

...This chapter examines automobile culture in the United States during World War II, with particular emphasis on the Office of War Information’s propaganda that implored Americans to alter their driving habits. It first considers the rubber scarcity that prompted the federal government to ration...

... art historians with a subset of visual images that they have often neglected to incorporate into canonical studies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art. The chapter illustrates how posters were designed as part of numerous propaganda campaigns to sensitize men and women to the dangers posed...

... War (1931–1945), kamishibai was a crucial medium for the dissemination of propaganda to a variety of audiences, adults as well as children. This chapter asks: How did the characteristics of kamishibai function in the context of prowar, imperialist propaganda to make...

... of displacing the notion that these images are complicit in the great destruction of the war, stressing that images are visual objects that capture and interpret but do not collaborate in or contribute to the unfolding of historical events, albeit they were used for Nazi propaganda by the Ministry of Propaganda...

...This chapter examines the role of maps as graphic propaganda for public health: from John Snow’s map of the infamous Broad (now Broadwick) Street pump in London’s Soho, first created during the cholera epidemic of 1854, to epidemiological maps used by government agencies in the early twenty-first...

... Kang Touying moxing Zhang Huimin 1929 Wen Kang dispositifs Hongxia Wen Yimin 1929 Red Heroine The Wen Yimin 1929 Wen Yimin Shanghai cinema Affect Medium Intermediality Propaganda Spectatorship Chinese cinema Architecture wireless technology early television aesthetics Between 1927...

... of the Storm Xu Xingzhi 1935 Tang Na Tian Han Wan Brothers Wang Ying Wu Yinxian Xu Xingzhi Yan’an Yuan Muzhi Yuguangqu Cai Chusheng 1934 Zhou Boxun Ziyou shen Situ Huimin 1935 propaganda Chomette Henri Cinéa ciné pour tous journal cinematic techniques Eggeling Viking Film Director and Film...