Center Stage: Media and the Performance of American Politics

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 - 201 من الصفحات
This up-to-date and lively text focuses on a wide range of issues, such as politics as theater, the economic forces shaping contemporary political media, the rhetoric of the "War on Terrorism," and the growth of new media. Separate chapters explore a range of contexts, including the presidency, Congress and the courts, foreign news reporting, and political art. The text concludes with ways to open up additional pathways for imagining our national life, ranging from Internet-supported activism to innovative uses of documentary film.

Center Stage: Media and the Performance of American Politics examines political and mediated communication as forms of representational theater. Taking the dramatic orientation to politics seriously, Woodward explores how American civic culture is variously enriched and diminished by the ways practitioners and journalists organize narratives, or stories, about our civic life.

 

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Frames of Reference in an Era of Casual Spectatorship
1
Forces Shaping the News Business
25
Discovery and Discourse in the New Media
59
The Staging of the Contemporary Presidency
85
Congress and the Courtroom
107
Nationalism Foreign News and War Reporting
129
Art Entertainment and Politics
157
Selected Bibliography
185
Index
193
About the Author
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Gary C. Woodward is professor of communication studies at The College of New Jersey.

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