{"product_id":"red-lines-isbn-9780262543019","title":"Red Lines","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lively graphic narrative reports on censorship of political cartoons around the world, featuring interviews with censored cartoonists from Pittsburgh to Beijing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy 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 \u003ci\u003eRed Lines\u003c\/i\u003e, 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--\u003ci\u003eRed Lines\u003c\/i\u003e crisscrosses the globe to feel the pulse of a vocation under attack.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.Series Editor's Introduction\u003cbr\u003ePreamble\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction: The Power and Precarity of the Pencil\u003cbr\u003e2. When Censorship Backfires\u003cbr\u003e3. We Know Where You Live: Intimate Invasions\u003cbr\u003e4. Post-Orwellian Censorship\u003cbr\u003e5. Gilded Cages: Censorship by Seduction\u003cbr\u003e6. Market Censorship: Freedom for Those Who Own a Press\u003cbr\u003e7. Democratically Rejected: The X'ed Files\u003cbr\u003e8. From Liberation Technology to Flatform Censorship\u003cbr\u003e9. No Man's Land: Dissent in Wartime\u003cbr\u003e10. The Boys' Club: Gender-based Censorship\u003cbr\u003e11. The Trap of Accidental Associations\u003cbr\u003e12. Hate Speech, Taking Offense, and the \"Good Censor\"\u003cbr\u003e13. Undrawable: The Aura of the Sacred\u003cbr\u003e14. Je Suis Charlie: A Symbolic Battle\u003cbr\u003e15. Concluding Lines, in Words and Cartoons\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eArtists Featured\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cb\u003e2022 PROSE Award Finalist, Media and Cultural Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 PROSE Award Finalist, Nonfiction Graphic Novels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An absorbing read [...] \u003ci\u003eRed Lines\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable almanac for anyone who has been involved in the defence of cartoonists over the last few decades.\"—\u003cb\u003eCartoonists Rights Network International\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I would recommend this title to anyone with an interest in political satire.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTjeerd Royaards,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCartoon Movement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“This brilliant tribute to political cartoons is not only a visual feast, but also an in-depth treatise on contemporary threats to freedom of expression posed by governments, corporations, and grassroots forces ranging from religious extremists to well-meaning champions of social justice.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eNadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita, New York Law School; President, American Civil Liberties Union (1991–2008)\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Few books grab a reader as \u003ci\u003eRed Lines \u003c\/i\u003edoes. A history, an analysis, a \u003ci\u003ecri de coeur\u003c\/i\u003e, a celebration of ideas and art and human rights, all wrapped in an endlessly fascinating example of ‘show, not tell.’”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDavid Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression (2014–2020) and Clinical \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The political cartoon is the art form of our deeply troubled world, and this brilliant, disturbing, and ultimately hopeful book is far and away the definitive guide.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eVincent Mosco, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Political Economy of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eCherian George is Professor of Media Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University's School of Communication. A former journalist, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eHate Spin: The Manufacture of  Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press). Sonny Liew is a celebrated cartoonist and illustrator and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, which received three Eisner Awards and the Singapore Literature Prize.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301176201445,"sku":"NP9780262543019","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262543019.jpg?v=1767735546","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/red-lines-isbn-9780262543019","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}