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 spheres...

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Main Author: Mast, Jason L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
Series:Cambridge cultural social studies
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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 L. Mast demonstrates how interactions between leaders, publics, 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
Physical Description:xi, 198 pages digital
ISBN:9781139206938