Political Scandal and American Pop Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Scandal and American Pop Culture write by Jim Twombly. This book was released on 2018-10-24. Political Scandal and American Pop Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a newer definition of political scandal and applies it in a way to remove “ordinary corruption” from the discussion. It then defines pop culture and examines how scandal and pop culture interact. The discussion addresses the question: when does a scandal actually enter into our pop culture. The mechanisms or vehicles by which this occurs include editorial cartoons, Broadway shows, music, movies, television, and more. The first chapter lays out the two main definitions and gives a bit of historical background to the discussion that follows. Chapters 2 through 8 deal with scandals from Watergate to the Trump Administration and from presidents to members of Congress and governors. Chapter 9 ties all of the previous discussion together and makes an assessment of the contemporary state of scandal and pop culture. This book works well as a supplement in a course on American Government, in American Studies, and is aimed at a wide range of readers from college freshmen to more advanced scholars and political junkies.
Media Scandals
Media Scandals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Media Scandals write by James Lull. This book was released on 1997. Media Scandals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By exploring how scandals fuel mass media and popular culture, this book should stimulate discussion about the subject.
Scandal
Scandal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scandal write by Suzanne Garment. This book was released on 1992. Scandal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A widely respected authority on national politics explores the world of post-Watergate Washington and provides the essential details to understand how government has become paralyzed by endless hearings and investigations. Updated to include new material on Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, and Bill Clinton.
Sex Scandal America
Sex Scandal America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sex Scandal America write by David Rosen. This book was released on 2010-03. Sex Scandal America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sex Scandal America is a comprehensive history of sexual scandals in America from colonial times (including Pocahontas and the Puritans) to today (few know about this part of George W. Bush's dubious past). The book exposes the scandals of national political figures (presidents, congress-folk, governors) and those of celebrities (e.g., entertainers and tycoons). It ties these scandals to the deeper changes in sexual culture occurring during the various phases of the country's social evolution. Most importantly, it assesses the role of political scandals as a form of public shaming. The book shows how, over the last four centuries, scandals have changed as a ritualized spectacle, evolving from a morality tale to an entertainment distraction.
Parasocial Politics
Parasocial Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parasocial Politics write by Jason Zenor. This book was released on 2014-10-21. Parasocial Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The popularity of cable news, satire, documentaries, and political blogs suggest that people are often absorbing and dissecting direct political messages from informational media. But entertainment media also discusses the important political issues of our time, though not as overtly. Nonetheless, consumers still learn, debate, and form opinions on important political issues through their relationship with entertainment media. While many scholarly books examine these political messages found in popular culture, very few examine how actual audiences read these messages. Parasocial Politics explores how consumers form complex relationships with media texts and characters, and how these readings exist in the nexus between real and fictional worlds. This collection of empirical studies uses various methodologies, including surveys, experiments, focus groups, and mixed methods, to analyze how actual consumers interpret the texts and the overt and covert political messages encoded in popular culture.
