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Presidential Unrealities : Epistemic Panic, Cultural Work, and the US Presidency.
This book analyzes and historicizes an important and popular motif in contemporary US political discourse: the notion that politics has become increasingly 'unreal.' At the turn of the millennium, the simulated quality of politics in general and of the US presidency in particular has becom...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2014.
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| Colección: | American Studies - A Monograph Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue; Reading the 'Fictitious President'; No Textualization without Representation? Situating Presidential Unreality; Epistemic Panic, Fact Panic, and a Passion for the Hyperreal; Realisms: Discourses of Sobriety, Spectacles of Referentiality; The Politics of (Post- )Postmodernism; The Disciplinary Work(ings) of 'Cultural Work'; (New) American Studies; New Historicism; (Postclassical) Narratology; Conclusion; 1. Frames, Facts, and Fiction: Popular Narratology and Presidential Unreality; Introduction: Of Traveling Theories.
- Linguistic UnrealitySpinning Frames and Bouncing Facts; The Narrative Turn; Popular Narratology; A Tale of Presidential Storytelling: Frank Rich's The Greatest Story Ever Sold
- Rough Drafts of History: Instant Historiography and Kulturkritik
- Authentication, Textual Authority, and Ambivalence; Crossovers and Collapses; Kidnapped Readers, Hijacked Stories: The Librarian and the Power of Narrative; Hitting Home in the Desert of the Real; Fog Facts and Sticky Tales; Getting the Narrative Right; Conclusion; 2. The Hyperreal and Its Appeal: Hollywood and 'Californian' Unreality.
- Introduction: The Reel and the RealCalifornia Crossroads: The Uses of the Golden State; No There There; The Reel Troubles of Hard-Boiled Men; Frankfurt, CA: Kulturkritik, Iconoclasm, and the Dream Factory; Gaudy Games of Referentiality: ""American Hero"" as Satire; Telling Games: ""American Hero's"" Narrative Setup; The Reel America vs. The Real America; Play-Boy? The Hard-Balled Detective as Inside Narrator; Tale Whacks Reality? ""Wag the Dog's"" Take on Social Reality; "How Close Are You to This?" or: The Medium Is the Menace; "What Difference Does It Make if It's True?"
- "That Is a Complete Fucking Fraud. ... It's so Honest"Conclusion; 3. Selling Images: Market(ing) Critique and the Graphic Revolution; Introduction: At Pennsylvania and Madison; Selling the Image; Social and Cultural Critique; The Market and the Public Sphere; The Rise of the Image; Selling Out: The Othering of the Image in The Selling of the President 1968
- The Telling of the President; Resonances and Ventriloquism; Ambivalence and Othered Textualities; Defrosting the Image: The Nostalgia of Frost/Nixon
- "Just Think of the Numbers It Would Get": Truths and Audiences.
- "The First and Greatest Sin": Ambivalences of the Image"I Guess We Just Got Caught Up, You Know, Reminiscing"; Conclusion; Conclusion: Strange Coincidences, Powerful Collusions; Looking Back; Closing Thoughts; List of Works Cited.