Masks and Human Connections. Disruptive Meanings and Cultural Challenges 1st ed. 2023 Edition Luísa Magalhães

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3031166728
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031166723
• Author(s): Luísa Magalhães, Cândido Oliveira Martins

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.

Table contents:

Part I. Masks and Human Identities Within Collective Social Performances
1. Masks and Human Connections: An Introduction
2. Unmasking the Protester: Deciphering the Collective Disguise of Masked Identities in Political Resistance and Communication
3. Masked Belles and Beasts: Uncovering Toys as Extensions, Avatars and Activists in Human Identity Play
4. (M)asking for a Return: Social Hypocrisy and Social Engineering
5. Narrative Masking of Social Performance in Education
6. A Game of Masks: The Communicative Performance of the Portuguese Populist Far-Right
Part II. The Signifying Mask: Ethnographic Meanings and Representation Challenges
7. The Semiotics of the Mask: To Reveal by Concealing and Conceal by Revealing
8. Masks and the Masked Ones: Performance, Interaction and Hybridity
9. Sissy Masks: Effeminate Freak Show and Theatrical Faggotry in Pretending-to-Be-Gay Films
10. From Masking Pandemic Times to Identity Challenges: Representations in Current Literature
11. Masks and Masquerades in Amazigh Morocco
Part III. The Ambiguity of Masks Use in Visual Culture, Digital Contexts and Social Interaction
12. How to Build, Rebuild or Destruct Identity Through Face Masks in Visual Culture
13. From Invisibility to Ethnic Humor on Social Networks: The Long Emancipation of the Portuguese in France
14. The Ambiguity of Masks as Transformative Conveyors of Meaning: Protection, Disguise, and Interactive Performance
15. The Digital Mask on Social Media: The Tyranny of Beauty Filters Among Digital Natives
Part IV. Shaping Intersubjective Relationships: Ethics, Reason and Memory
16. Levinas and the Impact of Mask Wearing on Intersubjective Relationships
17. Ethics and Politics of Masking and Unmasking: Contrasting Lévinas’ and Deleuze’s Takes on the Face
18. Mask as a Means of Shaping Intellectual Identity
19. The Face and the Masks: (Mis)representations of Memory
20. Face Mask: Implications for Individual–Society Relationship

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