Television And Politics

Author : Jeffrey P. Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780742565296

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Entertaining Politics by Jeffrey P. Jones Pdf

In this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment television by examining The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Politically Incorrect/Real Time with Bill Maher, and Michael Moore's TV Nation and The Awful Truth. This volume investigates how and why these shows have been central locations for the critique of political and economic power and an important resource for citizens during numerous political crises. In an age of Truthiness, fake news and humorous political talk have proven themselves viable forms of alternative reporting and critical means for ascertaining truth, and in the process, questioning the legitimacy of news media's role as the primary mediator of political life. The book also addresses the persistent claims that these programs have cynical effects and create misinformed young citizens, demonstrating instead how such programming provides for an informed, active, and meaningful citizenship. The new edition takes account of the many changes that have occurred in television and political culture since Entertaining Politics' initial release.

Author : Betty Kaklamanidou,Margaret Tally
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317078494

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Politics and Politicians in Contemporary US Television by Betty Kaklamanidou,Margaret Tally Pdf

Bringing together well-established scholars of media, political science, sociology, and film to investigate the representation of Washington politics on U.S. television from the mid-2000s to the present, this volume offers stimulating perspectives on the status of representations of contemporary US politics, the role of government and the machinations and intrigue often associated with politicians and governmental institutions. The authors help to locate these representations both in the context of the history of earlier television shows that portrayed the political culture of Washington as well as within the current political culture transpiring both inside and outside of "The Beltway." With close attention to issues of gender, race and class and offering studies from contemporary quality television, including popular programmes such as The West Wing, Veep, House of Cards, The Americans, The Good Wife and Scandal, the authors examine the ways in which televisual representations reveal changing attitudes towards Washington culture, shedding light on the role of the media in framing the public’s changing perception of politics and politicians. Exploring the new era in which television finds itself, with new production practices and the possible emergence of a new ’political genre’ emerging, Politics and Politicians in Contemporary U.S. Television also considers the ’humanizing’ of political characters on television, asking what that representation of politicians as human beings says about the national political culture. A fascinating study that sits at the intersection of politics and television, this book will appeal to scholars of popular culture, sociology, cultural and media studies.

Author : Frédérick Bastien
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774836852

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Breaking News? by Frédérick Bastien Pdf

In the thousand-channel universe, politicians must find innovative ways to reach citizens via television. Viewership for news and current affairs television programs has dropped dramatically. Meanwhile, the rise of programming that blends information with entertainment – infotainment – on French Canadian television has provided new opportunities for today’s politicians. Breaking News? traces the development of infotainment and exposes the impact of these kinds of programs on modern political communication. Though not without its controversies, infotainment ultimately makes a positive contribution to democratic life by piquing the audience’s interest in public affairs and motivating it to pay more attention to political news in general.

Author : Jack Holland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Culture
ISBN : 1526134233

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Fictional Television and American Politics by Jack Holland Pdf

Holland asks what some of America's most popular TV shows have to say about its politics. He analyses Game of Thrones, House of Cards, The West Wing, Homeland, 24, Veep, The Wire, The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad, showing how they are all politically consequential shows that shape how people feel and think about world politics..

Author : Jay G. Blumler,Denis McQuail
Publisher : Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Political Science
ISBN : MINN:31951001800105Z

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Television in Politics by Jay G. Blumler,Denis McQuail Pdf

Author : Kurt Lang,Gladys Engel Lang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351306065

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Television and Politics by Kurt Lang,Gladys Engel Lang Pdf

"The authorsahave analyzed the television problem brilliantly. They had come up with a whole set of new insights, and their backup research always is fascinating to read."-Saturday Review"A cautious, research-based bookahopefully it will set a trend."-Ithiel de Sola Pool, Public Opinion QuarterlyAfter more than forty years of studying its political implications, Kurt and Gladys Lang put the power of television into a unique perspective. Through carefully compiled case studies, they reveal surprising truths about TV's effect on American political life, and explode some popular myths. Their theme throughout is that television gives the viewer the illusion of being a favored spectator at some event-he "sees for himself," in other words. But, in fact, it conveys a reality different from that experienced by an eyewitness. Because the televised version of an event reaches more people, it has greater impact on the public memory and comes to overshadow what actually happened.The Langs tell in detail how television shapes events; how public figures and political institutions adjust their tactics to exploit the effects they-and millions of viewers-think television has. They examine such issues as whether or not network television projections influence election results. They consider the accuracy of the networks increasingly sophisticated techniques for "calling" election outcomes well before polls close. Such concerns have never been more at the forefront of the public consciousness than in the wake of the 2000 presidential election. The Langs assess the research to date and clarify the effects of early TV projections on voter turnout and election outcomes, and look at the implications for our system of government.A model of excellent policy analysis, this highly readable volume will interest decision-makers and analysts, as well as students of journalism, broadcasting, political behavior, and voters looking forward to the next election.Kurt Lang was a professor of sociology and political science at Stony Brook before becoming the Director of the School of Communications at the University of Washington. Gladys Engel Lang is a professor of communications with joint appointments in Political Science and Sociology at the University of Washington. In addition to Television and Politics, the Langs have also co-authored The Battle for Public Opinion: the President, the Press and the Polls during Watergate, Voting and Nonvoting, and Collective Dynamics.

Author : Jeffrey P. Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0742530884

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Entertaining Politics by Jeffrey P. Jones Pdf

Contrary to arguments that television is detrimental to democracy, Entertaining Politics explores the role of new political television in shaping a changing civic culture. Jeffrey P. Jones shows how viewers understand and make use of the increasingly blurred lines between 'serious' and 'entertainment' programming and argues that alarmist critics who predict the end of politics in the age of television have misconstrued the role of the medium and the commitment of audiences to both TV and public life. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Jonathan Gray,Jeffrey P. Jones,Ethan Thompson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814731994

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Satire TV by Jonathan Gray,Jeffrey P. Jones,Ethan Thompson Pdf

This work examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny. A series of original essays focus on a range of programmes, from 'The Daily Show' to 'South Park'.

Author : Arvind Rajagopal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521648394

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Politics After Television by Arvind Rajagopal Pdf

An analysis of the use of media by political and religious interest groups in India

Author : Lynda Lee Kaid
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1560727535

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Television and Politics in Evolving European Democracies by Lynda Lee Kaid Pdf

Throughout the world, television has become an important part of the way in which political candidates and parties present their messages to voters during election campaigns. This is particularly true in campaigns at the national level where voters have little personal contact with candidates and must rely on experiencing candidates through the media. Despite the importance of the media for voter-government interaction, however, many new reform governments in the post-communist era in Eastern European countries failed to appreciate the demands of creating workable new media systems.

Author : Marwan M. Kraidy,Katherine Sender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136913884

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The Politics of Reality Television by Marwan M. Kraidy,Katherine Sender Pdf

The Politics of Reality Television encompasses an international selection of expert contributions who consider the specific ways media migrations test our understanding of, and means of investigating, reality television across the globe. The book addresses a wide range of topics, including: the global circulation and local adaptation of reality television formats and franchises the production of fame and celebrity around hitherto "ordinary" people the transformation of self under the public eye the tensions between fierce loyalties to local representatives and imagined communities bonding across regional and ethnic divides the struggle over the meanings and values of reality television across a range of national, regional, gender, class and religious contexts. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students on a range of Media and Television Studies courses, particularly those on the globalisation of television and media, and reality television.

Author : Samuel Allen Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0755696867

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The Queer Politics of Television by Samuel Allen Chambers Pdf

"The Queer Politics of Television" is a radical book, which brings together the fields of political theory and television studies. In one of the first books to do so, Samuel A. Chambers exposes and explores the cultural politics of television by treating television shows - including "Six Feet Under", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Desperate Housewives", "The L Word", and "Big Love"--As serious, important texts and reading them in detail through the lens of queer theory. Chambers makes the case for the profound significance of 'the cult.

Author : Neil Postman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 014303653X

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Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman Pdf

What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. "It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals. “A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

Author : Gladys Engel Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:604070895

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Politics and Television by Gladys Engel Lang Pdf

Author : Betty Kaklamanidou,Margaret Tally
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317078487

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Politics and Politicians in Contemporary US Television by Betty Kaklamanidou,Margaret Tally Pdf

Bringing together well-established scholars of media, political science, sociology, and film to investigate the representation of Washington politics on U.S. television from the mid-2000s to the present, this volume offers stimulating perspectives on the status of representations of contemporary US politics, the role of government and the machinations and intrigue often associated with politicians and governmental institutions. The authors help to locate these representations both in the context of the history of earlier television shows that portrayed the political culture of Washington as well as within the current political culture transpiring both inside and outside of "The Beltway." With close attention to issues of gender, race and class and offering studies from contemporary quality television, including popular programmes such as The West Wing, Veep, House of Cards, The Americans, The Good Wife and Scandal, the authors examine the ways in which televisual representations reveal changing attitudes towards Washington culture, shedding light on the role of the media in framing the public’s changing perception of politics and politicians. Exploring the new era in which television finds itself, with new production practices and the possible emergence of a new ’political genre’ emerging, Politics and Politicians in Contemporary U.S. Television also considers the ’humanizing’ of political characters on television, asking what that representation of politicians as human beings says about the national political culture. A fascinating study that sits at the intersection of politics and television, this book will appeal to scholars of popular culture, sociology, cultural and media studies.