Journal of European Studies articles from September 2001

Journal of European Studies archives from September 2001

Humour as a strategy in war. (Special Issue).(Abstract)
September 1, 2001... The Editors would like to dedicate this issue to Marie-Monique Huss, a founding member of the Group for War and Culture Studies at the University of Westminster, whose idea for a conference devoted to humour as a strategy in war was the...

Introduction. War in the twentieth century: the functioning of humour in cultural representation.
September 1, 2001... Debra Kelly (*) As the twentieth century came to a close, much scholarly attention was focused on appraisal of its key moments, and especially on notions of memory and commemoration, as witnesses to many of these events passed from being...

Laughter and tears in the great war: the need for laughter/the guilt of humour.
September 1, 2001... Laughter and tears in the great war: the need for laughter/the guilt of humour (*) Jean-Yves Le Naour (+) In France there is a very long tradition of humour linked with political revolt. By the eighteenth century, there were numerous...

'Irrepressible chirpy cockney chappies'? Humour as an aid to survival.
September 1, 2001... Andrew Robertshaw (*) The 'cockney' is a character stereotype that can be traced from Dickens' Artful Dodger in the mid-nineteenth century and Kipling's poetry fifty years later, to the films of the 1940s and 1950s. The quick-witted,...

Mirroring societies at war: pictorial humour in the British and French popular press during the First World War.
September 1, 2001... Pierre Purseigle (*) This chapter will focus on the humour used and displayed by cartoons published in the English and French popular press in 1914-18. This enables us to explore the war culture of the period and particularly its visual...

'Laugh? I nearly died.' A comparative study of humour and ideology in Gaspard (1915) and Le Feu (1916).
September 1, 2001... Edward A. O'Broen (*) Since war is a common, if highly regrettable occurrence in human history, and laughter fundamental human characteristic, it hardly surprising that soldiers have often found themselves laughing in a war situation....

Crusader, white rabbit or organ-grinder's monkey? Leslie Illingworth and the British political cartoon in World War II.
September 1, 2001... Mark Bryant (*) Nobody ever got a Victoria Cross for drawing cartoons in wartime, yet their impact, particularly during World War II, was considerable. One commentator who realized the power of the visual image said that 'At one stroke......

Humour as a strategy in propaganda film: the case of a French cartoon from 1944.
September 1, 2001... Humour as a strategy in propaganda film: the case of a French cartoon from 1944 (*) Christian Delporte (+) The collective imagination of war-time France will form the basis of this study, with specific reference to genre which has been...

Comic songs in the Occupation.
September 1, 2001... Christopher Lloyd (*) Songs offer us a fascinating insight into the culture and mentality of occupied France. Whereas the two hundred or more feature films produced during the Occupation were constrained by the censors of Vichy or the...

Humour is not a strategy in war.
September 1, 2001... Christie Davies (*) If we use the word 'strategy' in its most usual war-time sense to refer to a planned and co-ordinated activity directed towards the successful resolution of a conflict, then it is clear that humour is not a strategy in...

'Hey, you're dead!': the multiple uses of humour in representations of British national defence in the Second World War.
September 1, 2001... Corinna Peniston-Bird (*) Penny Summerfield (+) Humour, especially the sort that is a medium for social and political commentary, plays an important role in the imagined community of a wartime nation. Such humour, like the concept of...

Reflections in a fractured minor: on French women's writing. (Review Essay).(3 books on French women's authorship)
September 1, 2001... AGNES CARDINAL (*) A History of Women 's Writing in France. Edited by Sonya Stephens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 314. [pounds sterling]16.95. 'Woman, Your Hour is Sounding': Continuity and Change in French...