Friday, October 3, 2008

VISUAL LITERACY: SAMPLE ESSAYS ON GENDER AND POLITICAL CARTOONS




For a stronger grasp of rhetorical analysis of political cartoons:

Janis L. Edwards
“Drawing Politics in Blue and Pink”
Analysis of gender topoi in political cartoons (e.g., metaphors of sport, war, and conflict). This essay's particularly useful in thinking about whether the gendering of politics has changed from the (D) Mondale/Ferraro candidacy of 1984 to the (R) McCain/Palin candidacy of 2008. (See above examples.)

Dori Moss
“The Animated Persuader”
Uses Kenneth Burke’s master tropes of metaphor, irony, synecdoche, and metonymy to explore persuasion in political cartoons.

Donna R. Hoffman and Alison D. Howard
“Representations of 9-11 in Editorial Cartoons”
Tracks the historical shift from memorializing to sociopolitical critique in 9-11 editorial cartoons.

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