The Trump Presidency in Editorial Cartoons engages with close to
one thousand editorial cartoons to analyze the visual
representations of President Donald Trump and his responses to six
news events during his term in office. Natalia Mielczarek traces
the mechanisms through which the drawings construct the
president’s image and their potential rhetorical consequences for
interpretation. Through this analysis, Mielczarek argues that the
right-leaning cartoons largely erase the president’s likeness
from their plotlines, acting as a shield against accountability for
Trump. Left-leaning cartoons, on the other hand, tend to clone the
president and exaggerate his image in most of their stories, often
functioning as tools of symbolic censure and punishment. Through
these de- and re-contextualization tactics that make President
Trump either largely absent or hyper-present in the narrative, the
cartoons construct inadvertent rhetorical paradoxes and coalesce
around ideological heroes and villains. This result, Mielczarek
posits, more closely resembles partisan propaganda, rather than
political commentary and social critique. Scholars of
communication, political science, and media studies will find this
book of particular interest.
General
Imprint: |
Lexington Books-Fortress Academic
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Lexington Studies in Political Communication |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Natalia Mielczarek
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
190 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-66691-216-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-66691-216-6 |
Barcode: |
9781666912166 |
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