The Picturebook – a mirror of social changes. PWE 3 (34), 2016.

Under Fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War, 2008

An overview of military propaganda produced for children between World War I and World War II, featuring materials produced by Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, the United States, Spain, Japan, and the Soviet Union. Published in the volume Under Fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War. Edited by Elizabeth Goodenough and Andrea Immel. Wayne State University Press, 2008: pp. 59-76 and 144-153.

2014

The article presents a theoretical and historiographical reflection on the links between image and truth, taking as a lens the analysis of Propaganda images that privilege their political function over others. I will approach this question through some images that were taken as part of a Nazi propaganda film, shot in Westerbork, a work camp in the Netherlands, in 1944. Despite their origin, some of these images have been integrated into the iconography of WWII, and have been used as documents in trials, documentaries, and exhibits critical of the Nazis; some others have been invisibilized, perhaps because they could not be easily integrated into the frameworks that made the event legible. Along with the reconstruction of the history of this film, I will analyze the re-montage that German filmmaker Harun Farocki (1944-2014) did in his film Aufschub/Respite (2007). Farocki invites to suspend the images to be able to see in them the traces of the human beings that went through the camp; he brings in knowledge and viewing positions that open up other meanings. His methodological approach, which is also ethical and political, deals with the dilemmas of working with and through Propaganda images, and can bring valuable reflections and strategies for the historians of education.

Issues in Early Education 34: 7-21., 2016

As a subspecies of ideologically loaded picturebooks, this chapter focuses on military picturebooks. This term encompasses picturebooks dealing with war and the roles of soldiers. In the first part, a taxonomy of military picturebooks is created which is exemplified by telling examples. The second part focuses on a particular narrative problem of military picturebooks that is of interest to a cognitive theory of picturebooks (as pursued by Kümmerling-Meibauer & Meibauer 2013). On the one hand, it is not possible to represent war as a good thing across the board; on the other hand, war is depicted with respect to certain scenarios of self-defence. The narrative solution seems to be that " cute " characters (that is, anthropomorphic animals and vehicles) are introduced who serve as positive military protagonists that have to fight against aggressive characters representing the enemy. In military picturebooks, there is a contrast between cuteness and aggression that is astonishing when regarding the typical pedagogical demands on the accommodation of picturebooks to the child's cognitive abilities.

The goal of the article is to show the potential of the war metaphor applied in the picturebook medium and reflect upon the cultural premises of its use. The analysed material includes three Polish and two Scandinavian books, published within four years, 2011-2014: Pamiętnik Blumki (Blumka’s Diary, 2011) by Iwona Chmielewska, Powieki (The Eyelids, 2012) by Michał Rusinek and Ola Cieślak, Ostatnie przedstawienie panny Esterki (Miss Esterka’s Last Performance, 2014) by Adam Jaromir and Gabriela Cichowska, Lejren (The Camp, 2011) by Oscar K. and Dorte Karrebæk and Krigen (The War, 2013) by Gro Dahle and Kaia Dahle Nyhus.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW MANAGEMENT & HUMANITIES, 2023

The ‘use’ of mass media by the governments has been a long standing tradition. Every government has a ministry or a department related to the Press or the Media. The need of ‘managing’ the media by the governments is felt the most during the time of national crisis, and incidentally war is one such time. This paper attempts to analyse the use/ misuse of media as a propaganda tool by the state and non-state actors for achieving their own goals which are stated to be nationally important.

Into the field of study of persuasion it is clear that one of the most historically relevant tools to influence people’s minds and to drive them into a specific purpose has been Propaganda. And in this sense, propaganda becomes especially significant when it is applied to the context of warfare, in which Social Psychology has a two-faced application: support and polarize, that is to say, raising one’s morale while underrating the others. Further, the purpose of this paper is to analyse how the persuasive message in political cartoon propaganda, and particularly Walt Disney’s productions, was constructed, comparing and relating this short films with the ELM theories, in order to find out which of both main routes of persuasion predominates, not only focusing on the content (topics) showed but in the form (tone) it is shaped with.