About face: Facial prominence of George W. Bush in political cartoons as a function of war

Calogero, Rachel M.; Mullen, Brian

doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2007.12.007

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“…Another exemplary study investigated the degree of “facial prominence” (i.e. the relative proportion of a visual depiction of a person to portrayal of the head versus the rest of the body) given by cartoonists in their depiction of George W. Bush and noted a marked decline in facial prominence after the onset of two wars, symbolizing perhaps surprisingly declining power and dominance (Calogero and Mullen, 2008).…”

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Attributing leadership personality and effectiveness from the leader's face: an exploratory study

Nana

Jackson

Burch

2010

Leadership &Amp; Organization Development Journal

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PurposeThe paper aims to explore the processes by which individuals make attributions about a leader's personality and effectiveness based upon information contained within a photograph of a leader's face.Design/methodology/approachA mixed methodology approach is taken which combines an individual survey with a follow‐up focus group conducted with five classes of MBA students. In the survey, respondents were asked to rate the photographic images of ten CEOs for personality traits and leadership effectiveness that were apparent in the face; in the focus group, they were asked to reflect upon the processes they had utilized in order to make their attributions.FindingsThe study demonstrated that the vast majority of the participants actively used the face to attribute personality traits of the leaders as well as their ability to lead. The survey revealed that perceived leadership effectiveness was positively correlated to perceived extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and narcissism. The focus group revealed three strategies that were used when placing these attributions on a leader. These were drawing on explicit facial traits, using the leader's non‐facial traits and general appearance, and telling stories about the leader.Research limitations/implicationsThis was an exploratory study set up in an artificial laboratory‐like environment featuring a limited and homogenous collection of CEO photographs and involving a limited and relatively homogenous group of participants. However, it does show that the face is an important and rich source of information from which individuals can make detailed attributions about a leader's personality and their potential leadership ability. The functionality of making such attributions as well as its moral and ethical basis needs to be properly examined and discussed.Originality/valueThe study highlights the leader's face and the visual portrayal thereof, as a potentially important, yet rarely analyzed, aspect of leadership. It foregrounds photographs of leaders, most notably those taken of CEOs, as organizational artifacts that have been largely ignored but worthy data sources. Leadership scholars could profitably focus upon both the production and consumption processes associated with the visual portrayal of leadership.

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Attributing leadership personality and effectiveness from the leader's face: an exploratory study

Nana

Jackson

Burch

2010

Leadership &Amp; Organization Development Journal

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“…Визуальная репрезентация кампании по выборам президента США 2004 г. рассматривается в работе Коннерса (Conners 2005). Изучение графической репрезентаций Джорджа Буша-младшего в политических карикатурах, проведенное Р. Калогеро и Б. Муленом, позволило авторам выявить восприятие обществом действий президента США во время войны в Ираке (Calogero & Mullen 2008). Функции, выполняемые политическими карикатурами, рассматриваются также на примере графических текстов, посвященных теме борьбы с последствиями урагана Катрина (Kelley-Romano & Westgate 2007).…”

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Pragmatic and stylistic persperctives on British and American COVID-19 cartoons

Pavlina

2022

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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The research aims to compare and contrast British and American visual communication texts which are based on the combination on semiotically diverse modes. Using Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis the paper explores the way a specific segment of reality - the COVID-19 pandemic - is covered in political cartoons that employ the same language but are grounded in different cultural settings. To this end, a contrastive analysis of editorial cartoons used in British and American mass media was carried out. The sample encompasses 130 British and 130 American graphical texts published in 2020-2021 on the web sites of The Guardian and U.S. News World Report . The article focuses on the way the new meaning is produced due to the interaction of visual and verbal modes using the information shared by members of a specific linguacultural community. At first the pragmatic and functional properties of the sample texts are examined, then the stylistic features of the texts verbal components are studied. Taking a functional perspective, the research reveals the marked differences in two respective samples: the British COVID-19 cartoons criticize the governments policies, whereas the American ones do not only satirize but also acclaim, creating a positive image of those responsible for vaccination production and rolling out. They tend to use slogans to mobilize the public, performing the function typical of political posters. Drawing on the stylistic analysis of linguistic resources, the paper analyzes the differences in registers and rhetorical means used by British and American cartoonists to shape their messages. Both pragmatic aspects of the cartoons and the choice of stylistic devices used in their linguistic elements proved to be culture-specific, despite the similarity of issues the texts address. The research elucidates the way the cultural landscape affects the meaning-building processes in multimodal texts that employ different variants of the same language.

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“…There have been several studies and researches that tackled comic cartoons, mainly political cartoons. Calogero and Mullen's (2008) study has tackled facial prominence in political cartoons, that of George W. Bush, as a function of involvement in war. The study revealed lower facial prominence in the portrayal of the target after the onset of war.…”

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The Image of Iraqi Politics in Editorial Cartoons a Semiotic Analysis

Alghezzy¹

2019

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مستخلص: يتناول هذا البحث تحليل عدد من رسومات الكاريكاتير السياسي في العراق، وتسلط الدراسة الضوء على الكاريكاتير السياسي باعتباره وسيلة لنقل المعنى والغرض المطلوب من رسام الكاريكاتير إلى المتلقي, كما يبين أهميته في توضيح الأيدلوجيات والأحداث التي تحصل في حياتنا اليومية وخاصة على الصعيد السياسي للمواطن العراقي بطريقه هزلية. يتضمن البحث عددا من المواضيع المهمة التي يتناولها رسامو الكاريكاتير في العراق مثل الفساد الإداري والمالي, ووعود السياسيين و والتسويف وموضوع الكهرباء. يستعرض البحث في البداية ماهية الكاريكاتير السياسي وتاريخه وتطوره، كما يشرح ظهوره وتطوره في الشرق الأوسط والعالم، ثم يقدم البحث بعض الدراسات السابقة التي تناولت الكاريكاتير السياسي والموضوعات التي تناولها، ويلي ذلك مناقشة ودراسة للرسوم السياسية التي يستهدفها البحث من حيث المضمون والشكل والنص. وفي نهاية البحث تقدم الاستنتاجات والنتائج التي توصل إليها الباحث.

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About face: Facial prominence of George W. Bush in political cartoons as a function of war

Cited by 15 publications

References 41 publications

Attributing leadership personality and effectiveness from the leader's face: an exploratory study

Attributing leadership personality and effectiveness from the leader's face: an exploratory study

Pragmatic and stylistic persperctives on British and American COVID-19 cartoons

The Image of Iraqi Politics in Editorial Cartoons a Semiotic Analysis

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