Islamophobic narratives and animation series for adults: a tyranny of the visual

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Abstract

In the present work three series of animation for adults will be examined in emission still in Spain: The Simpson, American dad! and Family Guy. Your gratuitousness, your accessible and “comical” language, and your attractive format allowed to million television viewers to approach not daily realities as can be the case of the persons’ representation of other cultural contexts. From of the Cultural Studies that privilege an ideological reading of the culture, have been selected episodes of Arabic-Islamic subject, with the intention of examining some of the narratives islamophobics more generalized in the Arabic-Islamic culture.

Keywords:

Los Simpson, American dad!, Padre de Familia, Islamofobia, Estudios Culturales

Author Biography

Yasmina Romero Morales, Universidad de La Laguna

Yasmina Romero Morales es Doctora en Estudios Filológicos (Universidad de La Laguna, 2016), Diploma de Estudios Avanzados en Estudios Árabes e Islámicos (Universidad de La Laguna, 2008) y, además, posee dos másteres: uno en Estudios Feministas, Violencia de género y Políticas de Igualdad (Universidad de La Laguna, 2009) y otro en Literatura Comparada y Crítica Cultural (Universidad de Valencia, 2018).