| Center Stage: Media and the Performance of American Politics Contributor(s): Woodward, Gary C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742535649 ISBN-13: 9780742535640 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $152.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: Exploring political communication as theater, Center Stage shows how American civic culture is both enriched and diminished by the ways journalists organize narratives about civic life. This up-to-date text focuses on issues such as politics as representational theater, economic forces shaping political media, and growth of new media. Covering contexts from the presidency and Congress to political art, Center Stage suggests additional pathways for imagining our national life, including Internet-supported activism and innovative uses of documentary film. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Political Science | Political Process - General - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 320.973 |
| LCCN: 2006011873 |
| Series: Communication, Media, and Politics |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.08" W x 9.42" (1.02 lbs) 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |