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The Presidents We Imagine: Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
Jeff Smith
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Description for The Presidents We Imagine: Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
Paperback. Examines the presidency's ever-changing place in the American imagination. Ranging across different media and analyzing works of many kinds, this book explores the evolution of presidential fictions, their central themes, the impact on them of new and emerging media, and their role in the nation's real politics. Series Editor(s): Boyer, Paul S. Series: Studies in American Thought and Culture. Num Pages: 400 pages, 32 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APF; APT; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFD; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
In such popular television series as ""The West Wing"" and ""24"", in thrillers like Tom Clancy's novels, and in recent films, plays, graphic novels, and internet cartoons, America has been led by an amazing variety of chief executives. Some of these are real presidents who have been fictionally reimagined. Others are 'might-have-beens' like Philip Roth's President Charles Lindbergh. Many more have never existed except in some storyteller's mind. In ""The Presidents We Imagine"", Jeff Smith examines the presidency's ever-changing place in the American imagination. Ranging across different media and analyzing works of many kinds, some familiar and some never before ... Read more
In such popular television series as ""The West Wing"" and ""24"", in thrillers like Tom Clancy's novels, and in recent films, plays, graphic novels, and internet cartoons, America has been led by an amazing variety of chief executives. Some of these are real presidents who have been fictionally reimagined. Others are 'might-have-beens' like Philip Roth's President Charles Lindbergh. Many more have never existed except in some storyteller's mind. In ""The Presidents We Imagine"", Jeff Smith examines the presidency's ever-changing place in the American imagination. Ranging across different media and analyzing works of many kinds, some familiar and some never before ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in American Thought and Culture
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299231842
SKU
V9780299231842
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About Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith is assistant professor at the Center for Management Communication in the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He has been a political reporter, commentator, and television news consultant, a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University's Rothermere American Institute, and the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships for the study and teaching of American culture.
Reviews for The Presidents We Imagine: Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
Especially timely in an era when media image-mongering increasingly shapes presidential politics. - Paul S. Boyer, series editor ""This is an extraordinarily interesting, beautifully written book, with scores of fascinating insights into the ways that high culture and, increasingly, mass culture, have depicted American presidents."" - James B. Gilbert, author of Explorations of American Culture