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Anti-American Political Cartoons as Propaganda Published in Rudé Právo in 1951

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Katz P.
Communication Today
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2022
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vol. 13
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issue 2
62-79
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Political cartoons have the power to entertain, inform and persuade. Their humour makes sometimes abstract or complicated topics more acceptable to readers. This study uses a methodology based on work by Medhurst and DeSousa and Ray Morris, to examine the rhetoric and symbols used by Communist controlled media in 1951 Czechoslovakia and decodes the visual and contextual elements of anti-American political cartoons published in Rudé právo (in English Red Law). The analysis shows consistent use of condensation to simplify complex issues with a clear bias towards portraying Czechoslovakia (and countries in the Soviet sphere of influence) as having a better quality of life under the Soviet Union. ‘Othering’ is accomplished through combination, undermining the credibility and humanity of any actors the state perceives as undesirable, compelling the reader to visualise them as horrible and animalistic. Another prominently displayed feature in the majority of political cartoons of the era is the use of Nazi symbols and caricatures used to associate the U.S. with the Nazi regime facilitating the continued feelings of outrage and hate to be transferred to the U.S. despite the relative feelings of goodwill and friendship developed in previous years. This propaganda proved effective for the Communist party in 1950’s Czechoslovakia. Of the 64 cartoons analysed, eight are included as a representative sample detailing the elements and topics depicted.
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Book review. Oliveira-Monte, Emanuelle K. F. (2018). Barack Obama is Brazilian: (Re)Signifying Race Relations in Contemporary Brazil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Papadimitriou M., Psilaki V.
The European Journal of Humour Research
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2020
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vol. 8
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issue 1
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Barack Obama is Brazilian by Emanuelle Oliveira-Monte suggests an interesting and original attempt to highlight the interconnections between political humour, race and gender, a stimulating area of study in humour research. The book explores the ways Brazilian media portrayed the former US president with a specific focus on political cartoons and internet memes. The election of an African-American president to the office of the most powerful country of the world had a tremendous impact on the collective unconscious of the African Diaspora worldwide and especially in Brazil; it also led some analysts to postulate that the US was entering a new post-racial era. President Barack Obama emerged as an open sign, as a symbol of hope and change not only in the US but also globally. This provocative monograph, an interdisciplinary study on comparative race relations, analyses Obama’s shifting portrayals and investigates how the election of the first black US president complicates Brazilians’ own racial discourses. The main question, around which the whole book is articulated, has to do with the meaning of Obama’s victory to Brazil, a country in which almost 54% of the population is of African origin. Did Obama’s victory eventually confirm or challenge Brazil’s racial relations imaginary?
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Wątpliwe odrodzenie Polski. Akt 5 listopada w propagandzie wizualnej stron walczących

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Szlanta P.
Miscellanea Historico-Archivistica
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2017
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vol. 24
143-152
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The issuing of the 5th Of November Act (also called Two Emperors Act) in 1916 was further evidence of the total character of the First World War. All participants of the war desperately tried to overcome a deadlock in trench warfare. What is not astonishing, following the general line of their policy, both belligerent camps interpreted this document completely differently. This was refl ected in cartoons as well. Propagandists of the Central Powers presented the decision of both emperors as an act of historical importance, proof of the selfl ess friendship of its authors towards Poles. On the other side, Entente Powers saw in the 5th Of November Act an illegal and cynical attempt to cheat Poles and force them to join the military efforts of the Central Powers.
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Ogłoszenie Aktu 5 listopada 1916 r stanowiło kolejny przejaw totalizacji Wielkiej Wojny, w której strony walczące intensywnie szukały wszelkich sposobów wyjścia z impasu jaki zapanował na frontach. Co nie jest zaskakujące, obie strony konfliktu przyjęły odrębną, zgodną z ich interesami i prowadzoną polityką interpretację dokumentu, co znalazło wyraz także w ikonografii. Propagandziści państw centralnych przedstawili decyzję Wilhelma II i Franciszka Józefa I jako akt o charakterze dziejowym, ogłoszony w imię bezinteresownej przyjaźni dla Polski. Z kolei ententa upatrywała w nim bezprawną i cyniczną próbę oszukania Polaków i przymusowego wprzęgnięcia ich w militarny wysiłek Niemiec i Austro-Węgier.
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Wątpliwe odrodzenie Polski. Akt 5 listopada w propagandzie wizualnej stron walczących

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Szlanta P.
Miscellanea Historico-Archivistica
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2017
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issue 24
143-152
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Ogłoszenie Aktu 5 listopada 1916 r stanowiło kolejny przejaw totalizacji Wielkiej Wojny, w której strony walczące intensywnie szukały wszelkich sposobów wyjścia z impasu jaki zapanował na frontach. Co nie jest zaskakujące, obie strony konfliktu przyjęły odrębną, zgodną z ich interesami i prowadzoną polityką interpretację dokumentu, co znalazło wyraz także w ikonografii. Propagandziści państw centralnych przedstawili decyzję Wilhelma II i Franciszka Józefa I jako akt o charakterze dziejowym, ogłoszony w imię bezinteresownej przyjaźni dla Polski. Z kolei ententa upatrywała w nim bezprawną i cyniczną próbę oszukania Polaków i przymusowego wprzęgnięcia ich w militarny wysiłek Niemiec i Austro-Węgier.
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The issuing of the 5th Of November Act (also called Two Emperors Act) in 1916 was further evidence of the total character of the First World War. All participants of the war desperately tried to overcome a deadlock in trench warfare. What is not astonishing, following the general line of their policy, both belligerent camps interpreted this document completely differently. This was refl ected in cartoons as well. Propagandists of the Central Powers presented the decision of both emperors as an act of historical importance, proof of the selfl ess friendship of its authors towards Poles. On the other side, Entente Powers saw in the 5th Of November Act an illegal and cynical attempt to cheat Poles and force them to join the military efforts of the Central Powers.
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