The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism
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Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4572
EAN: 9780252073120
ISBN: 0252073126
Label: University of Illinois Press
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: March 13, 2006
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Sales Rank: 385597
Studio: University of Illinois Press
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Contrasting strong women and multiculturalism with portrayals of a heroic white male leading the nation into battle, The Prime-Time Presidency explores the NBC drama The West Wing, paying particular attention to its role in promoting cultural meaning about the presidency and U.S. nationalism. Based in a careful, detailed analysis of the 'first term' of The West Wing's President Josiah Bartlett, this criticism highlights the ways the text negotiates powerful tensions and complex ambiguities at the base of U.S. national identity--particularly the role of gender, race, and militarism in the construction of U.S. nationalism. Unlike scattered and disparate collections of essays, Trevor Parry-Giles and Shawn J. Parry-Giles offer a sustained, ideologically driven criticism of The West Wing. The Prime-time Presidency presents a detailed critique of the program rooted in presidential history, an appreciation of television's power as a source of political meaning, and television's contribution to the articulation of U.S. national identity.
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- There should be more books like this...The West Wing (TWW)is my favourite television series so I was delighted that this academic book had ... Read More
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