The Performative Presidency - Crisis and Resurrection during the Clinton Years (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	December 2012
Authors:	Jason L. Mast
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	212
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-02618-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Political leaders & leadership
LSN:	1-107-02618-0
Barcode:	9781107026186

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