This interdisciplinary collection explores four distinct perspectives about the mask, as object of use for protection, identity, and disguise. In part I, contributors address human identities within collective social performance, with chapters on performativity and the far right and masked identities in political resistance and communication. Part II focuses on the mask as a signifying object with strong representational challenges, exploring representations in festivals, literature, and film. Part III investigates the ambiguous use of the mask as a protective and concealing element, delving into visual culture and digital social media contexts. Finally, Part VI draws on the work of Levinas and Deleuze to investigate a philosophical view of the mask that addresses memory and ethics within intersubjective relationships. Questioning the contemporary world, using communication, sociology, visual culture, and philosophical theory, the volume provides a pedagogical and formative perspective on the mask. Luisa Magalhaes is Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal, and editor of 'Toys and Communication' (2018). Candido Oliveira Martins is Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I Masks and Human Identities Within Collective Social Performances
Chapter 1. Masks and Human Connections : An Introduction
Chapter 2. Unmasking the Protester : Deciphering the Collective Disguise of Masked Identities in Political Resistance and Communication
Chapter 3. Masked Belles and Beasts : Uncovering Toys as Extensions, Avatars and Activists in Human Identity Play
Chapter 4. (M)asking for a Return : Social Hypocrisy and Social Engineering
Chapter 5. Narrative Masking of Social Performance in Education
Chapter 6. A Game of Masks : The Communicative Performance of the Portuguese Populist Far-Right
Part II The Signifying Mask : Ethnographic Meanings and Representation Challenges
Chapter 7. The Semiotics of the Mask : To Reveal by Concealing and Conceal by Revealing
Chapter 8. Masks and the Masked Ones: Performance, Interaction and Hybridity
Chapter 9. Sissy Masks: Effeminate Freak Show and Theatrical Faggotry in Pretending-to-Be-Gay Films
Chapter 10. From Masking Pandemic Times to Identity Challenges : Representations in Current Literature
Chapter 11. Masks and Masquerades in Amazigh Morocco
Part III The Ambiguity of Masks Use in Visual Culture, Digital Contexts and Social Interaction
Chapter 12. How to Build, Rebuild or Destruct Identity Through Face Masks in Visual Culture
Chapter 13. From Invisibility to Ethnic Humor on Social Networks : The Long Emancipation of the Portuguese in France
Chapter 14. The Ambiguity of Masks as Transformative Conveyors of Meaning : Protection, Disguise, and Interactive Performance
Chapter 15. The Digital Mask on Social Media : The Tyranny of Beauty Filters Among Digital Natives
Part IV Shaping Intersubjective Relationships : Ethics, Reason and Memory
Chapter 16. Levinas and the Impact of Mask Wearing on Intersubjective Relationships
Chapter 17. Ethics and Politics of Masking and Unmasking : Contrasting Levinas and Deleuzes Takes on the Face
Chapter 18. Mask as a Means of Shaping Intellectual Identity
Chapter 19. The Face and the Masks : (Mis)representations of Memory
Chapter 20. Face Mask : Implications for Individual-Society Relationship./.
ISBN
9783031166723 (hardcover)
3031166728 (hardcover)
OCLC
1348996795
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