Power and satire in the front-page images of Mariano Rajoy: visual motifs as political humour

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• dc.contributor.author Garín Boronat, Manuel
• dc.contributor.author Pérez-Pamies, Daniel
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-06-17T06:27:49Z
• dc.date.available 2024-06-17T06:27:49Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract This article explores the use of photography and visual motifs as forms of political humour in contemporary media. By studying the representation of former Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Rajoy in the front pages of three Spanish newspapers (El Mundo, El País and La Vanguardia) between 2011 and 2017, the paper identifies and questions the liaisons between power and satire present in the so-called “serious” press, focusing on how different photographic traits concerning layout, composition and gestures reflect ideological choices. This photographic satire developed by printed media is then framed within a figurative tradition that goes back to Spanish royal portraiture, from Velázquez to Goya, which employs common strategies for the visual depiction of power, including satirical and humorous attributes to push specific political agendas. This examination, based on the quantified study and the visual analysis of more than 7,500 front pages, is part of the national research project Visual Motifs in the Public Sphere: Production and Circulation of Images of Power in Spain, 2011-2017. In order to determine a useful procedural approach to satirical expressions in photographs, defining which front pages invoke a remarkable satirical content, this article also presents a comparative study and a categorisation based on formal (im)balances related to the concepts of visual motif and humour.
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• dc.identifier.citation Garin M, Pérez-Pamies D. Power and satire in the front-page images of Mariano Rajoy: visual motifs as political humour. The European Journal of Humour Research. 2021 Nov 1;9(3):65-91. DOI: 10.7592/EJHR2021.9.3.534
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/EJHR2021.9.3.534
• dc.identifier.issn 2307-700X
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60484
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies and The International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS)
• dc.relation.ispartof The European Journal of Humour Research. 2021 Nov 1;9(3):65-91
• dc.rights Copyright (c) 2021 The European Journal of Humour Research. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Photography
• dc.subject.keyword Power
• dc.subject.keyword Satire
• dc.subject.keyword Visual motifs
• dc.subject.keyword Front page
• dc.title Power and satire in the front-page images of Mariano Rajoy: visual motifs as political humour
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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