Melissa Dinsman

Bio

Melissa Dinsman is Assistant Professor of English at York-CUNY and author of Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics During World War II (Bloomsbury 2015). Her most recent work can be found in Contemporary Women’s Writing, The Space Between and the L.A. Review of Books, and n+1 online.

Contributions

Mrs. Miniver Builds the Home Front: Architecture and Household Objects as Wartime Propaganda

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To make propaganda, you must be successful and your film must be successful. . . . The most satisfaction I get out of a film aside from its critical and financial success, is its contribution to the thinking of people, socially or politically. In this sense, every film is propaganda. But, of course, propaganda must not look like propaganda. As I saw it, Mrs. Miniver was perfect as propaganda for the British because it was a story about a family, about the kind of people audiences would care...

Late to the Party

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In his insightful contribution to “In These Times,” James Gifford takes inspiration from Woolf to state that on or about November 2016 something fundamentally changed (or rather should fundamentally change) in our teaching of modernist studies. That the election marks a shifting moment in the ways in which we, as pedagogues, approach modern literature is a thought-provoking claim