Center stage : media and the performance of American politics
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Center stage : media and the performance of American politics
（Communication, media, and politics）
Rowman & Littlefield, c2007
- : pbk
Available at 8 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 185-192
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This up-to-date and lively text focuses on a wide range of issues, such as politics as theater, the economic forces shaping contemporary political media, the rhetoric of the "War on Terrorism," and the growth of new media. Separate chapters explore a range of contexts, including the presidency, Congress and the courts, foreign news reporting, and political art. The text concludes with ways to open up additional pathways for imagining our national life, ranging from Internet-supported activism to innovative uses of documentary film. Center Stage: Media and the Performance of American Politics examines political and mediated communication as forms of representational theater. Taking the dramatic orientation to politics seriously, Woodward explores how American civic culture is variously enriched and diminished by the ways practitioners and journalists organize narratives, or stories, about our civic life.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Prologue: News, Politics, and the Public Interest on September 10, 2001 Chapter 3 1 Frames of Reference in the Era of Casual Spectatorship Chapter 4 2 Forces Shaping the News Business Chapter 5 3 Discovery and Discourse in the New Media Chapter 6 4 The Staging of the Contemporary Presidency Chapter 7 5 Congress and the Courtroom Chapter 8 6 Nationalism, Foreign News, and War Reporting Chapter 9 7 Art, Entertainment, and Politics
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