Tim Blackmore is a professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University, Ontario Canada. His previous book, War X was published in 2005. He has written extensively about war, war technology, and popular culture.
Gorgeous War, a highly readable book, shows that the US of Walt Disney and the Third Reich of Goebbels were two variants not just of modernity but of hypermodernity, no matter how glaringly different their surface 'styles' and their human consequences. It shows we cannot afford to demonize and 'other' Nazism too hastily because there is greater affinity between Nazi Germany and aspects of modern America than we might like to admit to ourselves. - Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University For readers in cultural or media studies and those with advertising or marketing backgrounds, Gorgeous War will serve as a well-written text that should prompt questions about the motives of the advertising industry, specifically regarding the origins and uses of branding as a means of consumer enticement. -- Megan Moore Burns, Quill & Quire -- Megan Moore Burns -- Quill & Quire, 20191201