War and the media : reportage and propaganda, 1900-2003 / edited by Mark Connelly and David Welch.

"This volume developed out of an international conference sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Propaganda held at the University of Kent in September 2001"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: 'Winning hearts and minds': the changing context of reportage and propaganda, 1900-2003 / David Welch -- The British Press during the South African War: the sieges of Mafeking, Kimberley and Ladysmith / Jacqueline Beaumont -- Mobilizing the masses: the organization of German propaganda during World War One / David Welch -- "The missing Western Front': British politics, strategy, and propaganda in 1918 / Stephen Badsey -- Holy war in Europe: Charles Saroléa, Everyman and the First World War, 1914-17 / Samantha T. Johnson -- Der Magische Gürtel (The enchanted circle, 1917) - a case study in First World War German film propaganda / Roger Smither -- 'The mediator': images of radio in wartime feature film in Britain and Germany / Jo Fox -- 'Temperamentally unwarlike': the image of Italy in the allies' war propaganda, 1943-1945 / Ilaria Favretto, Oliviero Bergamini -- Humphrey Jennings: the poet as propagandist / Jeffrey Richards -- War report (BBC 1944-5) and the birth of the BBC war correspondent / Siân Nicholas -- Cinematic propaganda during the cold war: a comparison of British and American movies / Tony Shaw -- 'The man in Ed Murrow's shoes': Carl T. Rowan as director of the United States Information Agency, 1964-65 / Nicholas J. Cull -- American television coverage of the Vietnam War: the loan execution footage, the Tet Offensive (1968) and the contextualization of visual / David Culbert -- Vietnam's Tet Offensive (1968) on British television: an overview / Christine Whittaker -- Contesting war: British media reporting and the 1982 South Atlantic War / Klaus Dodds -- Missing in authenticity? Media war in the Digital Age / Susan Carruthers -- The Fourth Arm and the Fourth Estate: psychological operations and the media / Philip M. Taylor -- Learning the lessons of the 20th century: the evolution in British military attitude to the media on operations and in war / Lt. Col. Angus Taverner -- Straddling the divide - spinning for both sides / Mark Laity -- Afterword / Mark Laity.