Fictional television and American politics

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Beschreibung

We live in a golden age of fictional television, while our politics has never been so controversial. This book explores that relationship, asking what it is that some of America's most popular TV shows have to say about its politics.

Perhaps, like the author, you have gasped at Game of Thrones and balked at Breaking Bad. This book illustrates how, far from being outside of politics, shows such as these are deeply political, helping to fill our world with meaning. To this end, the book analyses Game of Thrones, House of Cards, The West Wing, Homeland, 24, Veep, The Wire, The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad. These are all politically consequential shows that shape how we feel and think about world politics.

Über den Autor

Jack Holland is the Russell F. and Marian J. Blowers professor of Christian ministries at Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College. Jack frequently conducts workshops and seminars in lay-counseling, ministerial ethics, sexuality, grief, and other pastoral care issues.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgementsList of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Watching television
1 America and the screen
2 Screening America under Bush, Obama, and Trump
3 Drawing lines: world politics and popular culture
4 Analysing fictional television
Part II: Politics and television
5 World politics as realpolitik (in House of Cards and Game of Thrones)
6 Constructing counter-terrorism (in Homeland, 24, and The West Wing)
7 Imagining the president (in The West Wing, 24, and Veep)
Part III: Television and our political world
8 Ethics and inequality (in The Wire)
9 Being human in a world of zombies (in The Walking Dead)
10 The personal is political (in Breaking Bad)
Conclusion
BibliographyIndex

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781526134233
ISBN-10:	1526134233
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Holland, Jack
Hersteller:	Manchester University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Jack Holland
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.2019
Gewicht:	0,386 kg