Presidential Debates : Fifty Years of High-Risk TV / Alan Schroeder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schroeder, Alan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Campaign debates--United States.

Campaign debates.

Television in politics--United States.

Television in politics.

Presidents--United States--Election.

Presidents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Edition:

second edition

Other Title:

Fifty years of high-risk TV

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Alan Schroeder's popular history now covers the 2000 Bush-Gore and 2004 Bush-Kerry debates, including innovations in format and press coverage, and adds new research on televised debates since 1960. Schroeder organizes his book according to a television production timeline, highlighting the importance of pre- and postdebate periods, as well as the live telecasts themselves. He describes production in painstaking detail, from the selection of questioners to camera angles, from makeup to lighting and set design. Televised debates represent a rare departure from well-choreographed campaigns, and new media such as YouTube continue to reshape form and content. Conducting interviews with journalists and industry insiders, and drawing on his own experience as an award-winning reporter and television producer, Schroeder delivers a fascinating backstage tour of every aspect of debate performance.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The First Presidential Debate

Part I: Preproduction

1. The Predebate Debate

2. Predebate Strategy

3. Candidate Preparation

4. Predebate News Coverage

Part II: Production

5. The Debaters

6. The Questioners

7. The Productions

Part III: Postproduction

8. Postdebate News Coverage

9. The Audience

10. Making Presidential Debates Better

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Appendix: Schedule of Televised Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates, 1960-2004

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-355) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231511780

0231511787

OCLC:

818856127