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Electoral Cultures : American Democracy and Choice.
Presidential elections are essential to US culture, shaping the nation's stability and global influence. This volume is the first to establish an interdisciplinary platform for a broad investigation of election mechanics and legacies. Historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and cul...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2015.
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| Colección: | Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian American Academy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Georgiana Banita and Sascha Pöhlmann Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of the Presidency: Elections and American Culture; Suffrage and Disenfranchisement; Manfred Berg
- From White Supremacy to the White House: Racial Disfranchisement, Party Politics, and Black Political Integration; Volker Depkat
- African Americans Voting: Visual Narratives of the Reconstruction Period; Sascha Pöhlmann
- Vote With a Bullet: The Aesthetics of Assassination in Stephen King's The Dead Zone and ""11/22/63""
- Georgiana Banita
- Voting for American Energy: Elections, Oil, and US CultureVoting, Campaigning, and Electability; Michael Hochgeschwender
- The Rise and Decline of the American Catholic Vote; Georg Schild
- Lincoln the Campaigner: The Issue of Slavery in Election Campaigns of the 1850s; Andrew Gross
- Goldwater's Phoenix: Emerging from the Ashes of an Unsuccessful Presidential Campaign; Gerd Hurm
- A Crisis of Rhetoric? 2012 Campaign Speeches and the Dilemma of American Exceptionalism; Mediating Choice: Visibility, Performance, Race.
- Diana Owen
- The Political Culture of American Presidential Elections: A Media PerspectiveAndreas Etges
- "A Great Box-Office Actor": John F. Kennedy, Television, and the 1960 Presidential Election; Reingard M. Nischik and Gabriele Metzler
- Culture and Charisma: The 2008 Presidential Election; Sabine Sielke
- The Blackening of Barack Obama and the Browning of America, or: How Race and Ethnicity Mattered in the 2012 Presidential Race; Symbolism and Narrative; Brendon O'Connor
- Buying into American Dreams: US Presidential Elections, Exceptionalism, and Global Power.
- Karsten Fitz
- Crafting the Presidential Story: The Electoral Narrative in Recent Presidential CampaignsSebastian M. Herrmann
- "To Tell a Story to the American People": Elections, Postmodernism, and Popular Narratology; Greta Olson
- Confessing Self, Confessing Nation: Life Narratives in the 2012 Presidential Election; Sabrina Hüttner
- "Stay in Control of Your Narrative, If You Let the Other Guys Define You": Hockey Moms, Hawks, and Heroes on the (Political) Stage; Antje Dallmann
- Absences and Presences: Campaigns, Candidates, and Voters in American Film; Contributors.