
Presidential Unrealities
Epistemic Panic, Cultural Work, and the US Presidency
Sebastian M. Herrmann(Author)
Universitätsverlag Winter
1st Edition
Published on 12. June 2014
Book
Hardback
249 pages
978-3-8253-6333-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 become a major object of concern across a broad range of venues and media: publications in media studies and political science, newspaper editorials, novels, films, and TV shows alike worry over how much or how little we can actually know about the reality of the US president when all our knowledge is based on carefully staged media representations.
Rather than adding another voice to this concern, 'Presidential Unrealities' investigates the cultural work such discussions do. Charting their histories and their cultural resonances, the book argues that debating 'presidential unreality' provides a crucial vocabulary by way of which the US public negotiates the postmodernization of American culture and society.
Rather than adding another voice to this concern, 'Presidential Unrealities' investigates the cultural work such discussions do. Charting their histories and their cultural resonances, the book argues that debating 'presidential unreality' provides a crucial vocabulary by way of which the US public negotiates the postmodernization of American culture and society.
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Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2012
Universität Leipzig
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
16 Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8253-6333-8 (9783825363338)
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