War and Semiotics: Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence

Description

Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures Contributors 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 1940–1945 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 Resurrection”: 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 Index