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OverviewWhy do the powerful feel so threatened by political cartoons? Cartoons don't tell secrets or move markets. Yet, as Cherian George and Sonny Liew show us in Red Lines, cartoonists have been harassed, trolled, sued, fired, jailed, attacked, and assassinated for their insolence. The robustness of political cartooning--one of the most elemental forms of political speech--says something about the health of democracy. In a lively graphic narrative--illustrated by Liew, himself a prize-winning cartoonist--Red Lines crisscrosses the globe to feel the pulse of a vocation under attack. A Syrian cartoonist insults the president and has his hands broken by goons. An Indian cartoonist stands up to misogyny and receives rape threats. An Israeli artist finds his antiracist works censored by social media algorithms. And the New York Times, caught in the crossfire of the culture wars, decides to stop publishing editorial cartoons completely. Red Lines studies thin-skinned tyrants, the invisible hand of market censorship, and demands in the name of social justice to rein in the right to offend. It includes interviews with more than sixty cartoonists and insights from art historians, legal scholars, and political scientists--all presented in graphic form. This engaging account makes it clear that cartoon censorship doesn't just matter to cartoonists and their fans. When the red lines are misapplied, all citizens are potential victims. A lively graphic narrative reports on censorship of political cartoons around the world, featuring interviews with censored cartoonists from Pittsburgh to Beijing. Why do the powerful feel so threatened by political cartoons? Cartoons don't tell secrets or move markets. Yet, as Cherian George and Sonny Liew show us in Red Lines, cartoonists have been harassed, trolled, sued, fired, jailed, attacked, and assassinated for their insolence. The robustness of political cartooning--one of the most elemental forms of political speech--says something about the health of democracy. In a lively graphic narrative--illustrated by Liew, himself a prize-winning cartoonist--Red Lines crisscrosses the globe to feel the pulse of a vocation under attack. A Syrian cartoonist insults the president and has his hands broken by goons. An Indian cartoonist stands up to misogyny and receives rape threats. An Israeli artist finds his antiracist works censored by social media algorithms. And the New York Times, caught in the crossfire of the culture wars, decides to stop publishing editorial cartoons completely. Red Lines studies thin-skinned tyrants, the invisible hand of market censorship, and demands in the name of social justice to rein in the right to offend. It includes interviews with more than sixty cartoonists and insights from art historians, legal scholars, and political scientists--all presented in graphic form. This engaging account makes it clear that cartoon censorship doesn't just matter to cartoonists and their fans. When the red lines are misapplied, all citizens are potential victims. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Cherian George , Sonny LiewPublisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Weight: 0.368kg ISBN: 9780262543019ISBN 10: 026254301 Pages: 440 Publication Date: 31 August 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsSeries 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 IndexReviewsAn 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 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 Author InformationCherian 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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