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This book offers a critical and cognitive focus that captures the history and influence of the rich Catalan cartooning tradition against the shifting political landscape in the period 1898–1982.
In a world increasingly dominated by visual sensation, our understanding of the role and influence of comics and cartoon humor in popular culture has become essential. This book offers a critical and cognitive focus that captures the changing fortunes of Catalan humour production against the shifting political landscape in the period 1898–1982. It considers how Catalan satire has been influenced by periods of relative calm as well as censorship, violence, war and dictatorship, and among its key features is its presentation of a continued cartooning tradition that was not ended by the installation of the Franco dictatorship, but which rather continued in a number of adapted forms, playing its own role in the evolution of the period. Thus, as well as introducing the most representative cartoonists and publications, the Catalan example is used to explore broader aspects of this complex communication form, opening new avenues for cultural, historical and socio-political research.
IntroductionThe Nature of Humour: Some Theoretical and Definitional GuidanceThe Catalan ContextDirectionsNotesChapter One: The Golden Age of Catalan Political Cartoons (1898-1931)The Pre-Twentieth-Century Catalan Satirical TraditionThe Legacy of 1898 and the fets de Cu-Cut!The fets de Cu-Cut!The Vilification of Alejandro LerrouxIn Search of the Funny-side of the Setmana TràgicaPapituSatire and CensorshipThe Rise of Syndicalism and the Primo de Rivera DictatorshipChapter One Images: Figures 2.1 to 2.9NotesChapter Two: Catalan Cartoon Humour and ‘Otherness’ in the Second Republic and Civil War (1931–1939)The Second Republic and the Catalan Statute of AutonomyThe Second Republic and the Satirical PressEl Be NegreGutiérrez and the 1932 Statute of AutonomyThe fets d’octubre and the bienni negreThe Fall of LerrouxThe Spanish Civil War and the Framing of ‘Otherness’The Sindicat de Dibuixants ProfessionalsChapter Two Images: Figures 2.1 to 2.12NotesChapter Three: Humour Under Franco Part I: Continuing a tradition (1939–1962)The Post-war Period at HomeThe 1938 Press LawThe Church and the Humour PressHumour in the Clandestine PressLa Bruguera and TBOChildren’s ComicsThe Challenge Facing Cultural Production in ExileTísner in ExileChapter Four Images: Figures 3.1 to 3.9NotesChapter Four: Humour Under Franco Part II: From Fraga to freedom (?) (1962–1975)Comics and the Revival of the Catalan-Language PressBruguera and the DERThe Ley FragaThe Application of CensorshipHumour in the PressCensorship: A case studyChapter Four Images: Figures 4.1 to 4.6NotesChapter Five: Humour and the Transition to Democracy (1975–1982)Humour Publications of the TransitionThe El Papus BombingsSolidaridad con El PapusThe 1978 ConstitutionThe Catalan Statute of AutonomyReception of the Statute in the PressThe ‘Tejerazo’ of 1981Reactions to the Tejerazo in the Satirical PressThe ‘End’ of the Transition: PSOE electoral victory 1982Chapter Five Images: Figures 5.1 to 5.8NotesConclusion
