Red Lines: Political Cartoons and the Struggle against Censorship

ISBN-13: 9780262543019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 448 str.

Cherian George; Sonny Liew

Recenzje

2022 PROSE Award Finalist, Media and Cultural Studies


2022 PROSE Award Finalist, Nonfiction Graphic Novels

"An absorbing read [...] Red Lines is an invaluable almanac for anyone who has been involved in the defence of cartoonists over the last few decades." Cartoonists Rights Network International

"I would recommend this title to anyone with an interest in political satire."
Tjeerd Royaards, Cartoon Movement

Spis treści

Series Editor's Introduction
Preamble
1. Introduction: The Power and Precarity of the Pencil
2. When Censorship Backfires
3. We Know Where You Live: Intimate Invasions
4. Post-Orwellian Censorship
5. Gilded Cages: Censorship by Seduction
6. Market Censorship: Freedom for Those Who Own a Press
7. Democratically Rejected: The X'ed Files
8. From Liberation Technology to Flatform Censorship
9. No Man's Land: Dissent in Wartime
10. The Boys' Club: Gender-based Censorship
11. The Trap of Accidental Associations
12. Hate Speech, Taking Offense, and the "Good Censor"
13. Undrawable: The Aura of the Sacred
14. Je Suis Charlie: A Symbolic Battle
15. Concluding Lines, in Words and Cartoons
Acknowledgments
Artists Featured
Notes
Bibliography
Index

O autorze

Cherian George is Professor of Media Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University's School of Communication. A former journalist, he is the author of Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy (MIT Press). Sonny Liew is a celebrated cartoonist and illustrator and the author of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, a New York Times bestseller, which received three Eisner Awards and the Singapore Literature Prize.