Drawing Conclusions: An imagological survey of Britain and the British and Germany and the Germans in German and British cartoons and caricatures, 1945-2000
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Title: | Drawing Conclusions: An imagological survey of Britain and the British and Germany and the Germans in German and British cartoons and caricatures, 1945-2000 |
Authors: | Moyle, Lachlan R. |
Thesis advisor: | Prof. Dr. Harald Husemann |
Thesis referee: | Prof. Dr. Colin Seymour-Ure |
Abstract: | Vicissitudes in the British-German relationship since the Second World War have been reflected in the social and political cartoons produced and published in Britain and Germany referring to the other and the European and international context of their relationship. This survey focuses primarily on press cartoons, analysing and interpreting their content along imagological lines. National stereotypes, symbols, and other imagery are identified and their origins, uses, and possible meanings investigated. The research shows that British cartoonists have often had easy recourse to imagery drawn from and connected with twentieth-century military conflicts and the experience of National Socialism, which they have been loathe to set aside even after fifty years of peace. Such imagery has come particularly to the fore during periods of tension between the two countries. On the other hand, German cartoonists have generally relied upon an older and less provocative palette of imagery. Towards the end of the twentieth century and after reunification, the German caricatural depiction of Britain and the British became less circumspect, with evidence of a sharper and more critical approach. Significant themes and topics in the depiction of the ´other´ are also identfied, such as each country´s position within the European Community, and their treatment is charted. |
URL: | https://osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-2005020415 |
Subject Keywords: | caricature; German-British relations 1945-2000; political cartoons; Imagologie; Image Studies; national stereotypes; symbols; graphic satire |
Issue Date: | 4-Feb-2005 |
Submission date: | 4-Feb-2005 |
Type of publication: | Dissertation oder Habilitation [doctoralThesis] |
Appears in Collections: | FB07 - E-Dissertationen |
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