Politics and Politicians in Contemporary US Television: by Betty Kaklamanidou,Margaret Tally

By Betty Kaklamanidou,Margaret Tally

Bringing jointly well-established students of media, political technology, sociology, and movie to enquire the illustration of Washington politics on U.S. tv from the mid-2000s to the current, this quantity deals stimulating views at the prestige of representations of latest US politics, the position of presidency and the machinations and intrigue usually linked to politicians and governmental associations. The authors aid to find those representations either within the context of the historical past of past tv exhibits that portrayed the political tradition of Washington in addition to in the present political tradition transpiring either inside and out of "The Beltway." With shut recognition to problems with gender, race and sophistication and delivering reports from modern caliber tv, together with well known programmes resembling The West Wing, Veep, House of Cards, The Americans, The solid spouse and Scandal, the authors research the ways that televisual representations demonstrate altering attitudes in the direction of Washington tradition, laying off mild at the function of the media in framing the public’s altering conception of politics and politicians. Exploring the hot period within which tv unearths itself, with new creation practices and the prospective emergence of a brand new ’political style’ rising, Politics and Politicians in modern U.S. tv also considers the ’humanizing’ of political characters on tv, asking what that illustration of politicians as humans says in regards to the nationwide political tradition. a desirable examine that sits on the intersection of politics and tv, this e-book will attract students of pop culture, sociology, cultural and media studies.

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