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The performative presidency : crisis and resurrection during the Clinton years /
"The Performative Presidency brings together literatures describing presidential leadership strategies, public understandings of citizenship and news production and media technologies between the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Bill Clinton and details how the relations between these sph...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Collection: | Cambridge cultural social studies.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "The Performative Presidency brings together literatures describing presidential leadership strategies, public understandings of citizenship and news production and media technologies between the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Bill Clinton and details how the relations between these spheres have changed over time. Jason Mast demonstrates how interactions between leaders, public and media are organized in a theatrical way and argues that mass mediated plot formation and character development play an increasing role in structuring the political arena. He shows politics as a process of ongoing performances staged by motivated political actors, mediated by critics and interpreted by audiences, in the context of a deeply rooted, widely shared system of collective representations. The interdisciplinary framework of this book brings together a semiotic theory of culture with concepts from the burgeoning field of performance studies"-- |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xi, 198 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139840361 1139840363 9781139206938 1139206931 9781139845106 1139845101 9781139842747 1139842749 9781107627321 110762732X |