Cartooning Humor: How Arabs are Laughably Derided in Animations
Some animated movies use humor to capture the full attention of its audience. In so doing, the movie’s messages have become a great concern for many theorists and critics by virtue of the idea that a movie can be a repository of ideologies meant to construct a certain type of easy-going and noncriti...
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| Language: | English |
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Ludovika University Press
2015-12-01
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| Series: | KOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry |
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| Online Access: | http://komejournal.com/files/KOME_MBelamghari.pdf |
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| Summary: | Some animated movies use humor to capture the full attention of its audience. In so doing, the movie’s messages have become a great concern for many theorists and critics by virtue of the idea that a movie can be a repository of ideologies meant to construct a certain type of easy-going and noncritical audience. This paper, therefore, takes the example of Max Fleischer’s Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba and his Forty Thieves (1937) and Robert Clampett’s Ali Baba Bound (1941) as its case studies aiming at spotting the different manifestations of humor, taking Arabs as its subject-matter, becoming a leaked ideology and taming the discourse that is amplified, manipulated, and delivered to the Western public in unwarrantable ways compared to the imagery of Westerners. |
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| ISSN: | 2063-7330 2063-7330 |