American television during a television presidency / edited by Karen McNally.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McNally, Karen, 1964- editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television in politics--United States.

Television in politics.

Presidents--Press coverage.

United States.

Television and politics--United States.

Television and politics.

Presidents--Press coverage--United States.

Presidents.

Mass media--Political aspects--United States.

Mass media.

Mass media--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

ix, 322 pages : chart ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2022]

Summary:

In American Television during a Television Presidency, Karen McNally and contributors critically examine the various ways in which television became transfixed by the Trump presidency and the broader political, social, and cultural climate. This book is the first to fully address the relationship between television and a presidency consistently conducted with television in mind--back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Donald Trump and a Media Presidency

1. The Imaginary President: Donald Trumps Narcissism and American TV / Martin Murray

2. Our Cartoon President: Donald J. Trumps White House as an Animated Comedy / Ratal Kus

3. The Mob, the Reds, and the TV President: The Changing Role of Televised Hearings in a Post-Decency Era / Kathryn Castle

II. Fact, Fiction, and Critique

4. The Political Is Personal: Disturbing Form, Revisiting Liberalism, and Resisting Trumps America in The Good Fight / Karen McNally

5. On the Value of Uncertainty in Uncertain Times (Or, "Pay Attention, You Assholes!"): Donald Trump, David Simon, and The Plot Against America / Simon Stow

6. From Political Depression to "Satiractivism": Late-Night in the Tribal Era of Trump / Dolores Resano

III. Genre, Style, and Reception

7. Star Trek: Discovery and Controversy: "The War Without, the War Within" / Teresa Forde

8. Paranoia, the Hive Mind, and Empowered Sisterhood: American Horror Story's Trump-Haunted World / K. Scott Culpepper

9. Teaching Demons and Eating Nazis: Morality in Trump-Era Fantasy Comedy / Gregory Frame

10. First as Farce, Then as Tragedy: The Hilarious Nihilism of the Trump-Influenced Final Season of Veep / Michael Mario Albrecht

IV. Power and Gender

11. Fosse/Verdon and the #MeToo Moment / Steven Cohan

12. "Grab Them by the Pussy": The Sexual Politics of Touch in The Handmaids Tale / Donna Peberdy

13. The Sound of Money and Power: Musical Scoring in Trump-Era Television Drama / Aimee Mollaghan

V. Renegotiating the Past

14. Remember the Time When: Annotations on Black Histories in Kenya Barris's Black-ish / Kwakiutl L. Dreher

15. You Can't Go Home Again: The Recuperative Reboot and the Trump-Era Sitcom / Martin Zeller-Jacques

16. "The Cost of Lies": Chernobyl, Politics, and Collective Memory / Oliver Gruner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780814349359

0814349358

9780814349366

0814349366

OCLC:

1264458305