{"product_id":"red-lines-political-cartoons-and-the-struggle-against-censorship-information-policy-9780262543019","title":"Red Lines Political Cartoons and the Struggle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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 a","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733472915799,"sku":"9780262543019","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/red-lines-political-cartoons-and-the-struggle-against-censorship-information-policy-9780262543019","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}