Performance, theatricality and the US presidency : the currency of distrust /

Proposes a new perspective on the contemporary rise of mainstreamed populism by exploring features of populist-style politics through the lens of distrust.

ग्रंथसूची विवरण
मुख्य लेखक: Peetz, Julia (लेखक)
स्वरूप: Licensed eBooks
भाषा:अंग्रेज़ी
प्रकाशित: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=4110966
विषय - सूची:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • INTRODUCTION: OBAMA'S TEARS
  • Mainstreamed Populism
  • The Theatre of Politics
  • Methods, Scope, Structure
  • CHAPTER 1 PERFORMANCE AT THE CORE OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY
  • Performance and Political Logic
  • The Performance-Based Core of Representative Democracy
  • Theatricality and the Suspension of Disbelief
  • CHAPTER 2 PERFORMING THE US PRESIDENCY
  • Performative Legitimacy and the Rhetorical Presidency
  • The Conventional Theatricality of the US Presidency
  • Presidential Performance in the US
  • CHAPTER 3 CULTIVATING LEGITIMACY THROUGH PERFORMANCE
  • Embodiment and Legitimacy
  • or, Different Kinds of Magic
  • Virile, Able, Ageless, and White: Presidential Bodies
  • Shifting Legitimacy and Outsider Rhetoric
  • Populist Claims to Represent and Legitimacy as a Zero-Sum Game
  • Performance and the Cultivation of Legitimacy
  • CHAPTER 4 THE CURRENCY OF DISTRUST IN PRESIDENTIAL PERFORMANCES SINCE WATERGATE
  • 'We work better with stories': Speechwriting in the Twenty-First Century
  • The Populist Slope in Contemporary Presidential Politics
  • AFTERWORD: THE PENDULUM AND THE SLOPE
  • Bibliography
  • Index