Masks and human connections : disruptive meanings and cultural challenges /: disruptive meanings and cultural challenges. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Luísa Magalhães, Cândido Oliveira Martins.
• Editors: Magalhães, Luísa; Martins, Cândido Oliveira
• 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 Lévinas' and Deleuze's 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 391.434; Masks -- Social aspects; Masks -- Philosophy; Interpersonal relations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031166730
• Related ISBNs: 9783031166723
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