TY - JOUR AU - Valhondo-Crego, José Luis PY - 2021/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Pioneers of Spanish audiovisual infotaintment: Visual culture and satirical caricatures in "The Motin" JF - VISUAL REVIEW. International Visual Culture Review / Revista Internacional de Cultura Visual JA - revVISUAL VL - 8 IS - 1 SE - Research articles DO - 10.37467/gka-revvisual.v8.2481 UR - https://visualcompublications.es/revVISUAL/article/view/2481 SP - pp. 51-58 AB - <p>In the late nineteenth century, the Spanish satirical press adopted a series of rhetorical strategies to offer the people a unique place within the representation of society. As Martínez Gallego has pointed out, the satirical weekly <em>El Motín</em> depicts an example of populist reason in the sense that Ernesto Laclau could argue. Through the content analysis of several cartoons, we examined the place that <em>El Motín</em> reserved to the floating signifier of the people. The satirical press let an illiterate working class deal with the issues of the political sphere.</p> ER -