The performative presidency [electronic resource] : crisis and resurrection during the Clinton years / Jason L. Mast.
2013
E885 .M38 2013
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The performative presidency [electronic resource] : crisis and resurrection during the Clinton years / Jason L. Mast.
ISBN
9781107026186
9781139845106 (electronic book)
9781139845106 (electronic book)
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xi, 198 p. : ports.
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E885 .M38 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.929092
Summary
"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 Mast demonstrates how interactions between leaders, public 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Mast, Jason L.
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Cambridge cultural social studies
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Presidential leadership under the conditions of defusion; 3. Character formation: the rise of two Bill Clintons, 1992; 4. The profanation of a president, 1992-1994: presidential character, the 'climate of suspicion', and the culture of scandal; 5. The Conservative revolution as purification and its subsequent pollution: the rise and fall of Newt Gingrich, and the fall and rise of Bill Clinton; 6. Birth of a symbolic inversion: Clinton (re)fuses with the presidential character; 7. The second term: the Republicans' polluting scandal and Clinton's successful performance; 8. Conclusion.