For this issue, The Poster seeks contributions in the form of papers,
visual essays and reviews that interrogate the visual culture of the Second
World War. Given the multiplicity of potential themes represented, we are open
to an equally rich variety of approaches that contemplate the visual forms of
communication in this period: images of war, propaganda, activism,
authoritarianism, manifestos and manifestations, conflicts, dissident images,
national and international cooperativism. The journal is not restricting the
call to combatant nations; we welcome research that reflects neutral and
non-aligned nation’s responses to the global conflict.
While this issue welcomes research into the formal mass media of the
conflict (movies, posters, artworks, publishing and the like), we also welcome
research into less overt propaganda. Uniforms, caricature, badges, architecture,
unit signs, pornographic black propaganda, fake currency and stamps, movies and
more were all pressed into service. At times, even the media of neutral states
was conscripted to promote partial positions in their home nations. The Poster
wants to see your research in these subjects.
