Politics and Popular Culture - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1443822590 ISBN 13: 9781443822596

Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010

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Reseña del editor:

In recent years we have seen a continuation and perhaps even acceleration in the trend of popular culture having a discernible effect on politics. From The Daily Show to candidates' use of Facebook and MySpace, politics have opened up to new technologies as we come online for the next generation. Our political world has become popularized, or our popular world has become politicized in a new way, facilitated by the entertainment media and new technologies. This volume's authors attempt to make sense of the changing political popular world through a series of interdisciplinary essays that explore the ramifications of popular cultural depictions of politics drawing on literature in a variety of fields: political science, history, literature, fine arts and communications. We explore three major phenomena in a politicized popular culture. First, we explore the role that the entertainment media play in understanding politics. What is interesting about our fictional political worlds is we are allowed, as a people, to consider different political ideals without the baggage of our last vote or our ideology. We can step outside ourselves and challenge the way we think on particular issues. Second, we explore the real world of politics as it has been shaped over the last century of new technology. As powerful a medium television proved to be to politics, the latest technological breakthroughs have proved to be a paradigmatic shift. From Twitter to Facebook, our politicians are able to keep in almost constant contact with their constituencies, which has vast implications for the way political discourse will progress. Third, we explore what happens when the real world and media collide. Entertainment media change their messages when major political events happen such as the case when spymaster tropes were forced to evolve when 9/11 changed the international dynamic. Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series had to be conceptualized on film in a new way after this event.The more connected our political world and our popular world become, and given the trends, we can only assume they will become increasingly intertwined, the more important it is for us to understand how these connections affect the world. This volume is a powerful pass at comprehending all that is happening across the politicized popular world.

Biografía del autor:

Leah A. Murray is Associate Professor of Political Science at Weber State University. Her research agenda includes the presidency and Congress, youth political participation and the political effects of popular culture. She was published in the area of popular culture in The Philosophy of the Undead by Open Court Press in 2006. She has presented papers on The West Wing and Battlestar Galactica at national conferences.

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• Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1443822590
• ISBN 13: 9781443822596
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 225
• Herausgeber: Murray Leah A.