Alfred Mccoy and Alejandro Roces. Political Caricatures of The American Era (Editorial Cartoons)

 

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Alfred McCoy and Alejandro Roces. Political Caricatures of the American Era (Editorial cartoons)

 

TOPIC OUTLINE

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Discuss

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The background of the authors and the achievements of the political caricature of the American era

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Meaning of Political caricature

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selected caricature in excerpt of Alfred McCoy and Alejandro Roces. Political Caricatures of the American Era (Editorial cartoons)

 

BACKGROUND OF THE AUTHOR  Alfred McCoy •

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JRW professor of History at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Who specialize at southeast asia. He has written and testified on Philippine political history, opium trafficking and underworld crimes. Majority his works and research research focuses on Phi Philippines. lippines. Author of The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Phillippine Cartoon, Closer than Brothers and many more. lfredo oces A the known R  Roces clan in Artist-writer from Philippinee print media. Philippin Co-author of Political Caricature of American Era. Known Journalist in Manila Times.

 

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Philippine Catholic Mass Media Med ia Award Award Best Book of the year for 1985 Philippine National Book award for history 1986 Gintong Ginton g Aklat Awrad Awrad (Manila (Manila)) Special Citation for history (1987)

 

Politcal cartoons and caricature are rather recent art form which veered away from the classical art by exaggerating human features and  poking it subjects. subjects. Wherein such art genre and technique  became part of the print print media as a form of social and political commentary. Cartoon became an effective tool of  publicizing  publicizin g opinions through through heavy use of of  symbolism. Whuch is different from verbose •

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written editorial. It captures the imagination of the readers. It inevitably shape the public opinio and is worthy of historical examination.

 

IS THE POLICE FORCE BRIBED?

 

 N  NE EW BIRD OF PREY

 

WHI LE THE P R I E S T LI VES ALONE I N A B I G B UI LDI NG ( THE I NDEP ENDENT 1 M AY AY 1920) , P. P. 35.

 

WHERE MOSQUITO ES IS KING, DONDETHE EL MOSQUITO REY

 

“LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY” “LIBERTAD, IGUALDAD, FRATERNI FRA TERNI DAD” (

 

. THE ESTUDIANTE RETURNING STUDENT VUELVE VUEL VE – EL

 

BROTHERS UNDER SKIN – HERMANOS EN ELTHE FONDO

 

THE L OY OYAL ALTY TY OF THE F ILIP INOS

 

THE LA LATEST TEST —LO U LTIMO

 

THE CAR CARTOON TOON I LLUS TRA TRATE TE AND DEPICTS The cartoon illustrate not only the opinion of certain media outfits, the Philippine Philippine society during American Period but also a broad image of society and politics under United State. We see the price that Filipinos paid for the modeled democracy after American.

Patronage also became influential and powerful not only between clients and  patrons but also between between the new formed political parties composed of elites and U.S

T he transitions from Catholic centered Spanish Filipino Society to an imperial American assimilated one such as motorized vehicles which resulted in increasing the colorum, unlicensed vehicles and rampant traffic violations of traffic rules. In addition is what Mccoy called   “sexual revolution”that occurred in 1930’s where in young peiple disturbed the conservative mindset of Filipinos by engaging daring sexual activities.

Lastly the cartoons illustrated the conditions of the Poor Filipino in the Philippines governed by the U.S. More so, how police opress the poor Filipinos while china monopolize goods. The cartoon depicts the reality. How american control Filipinos