Fictional television and American politics : from 9/11 to Donald Trump /
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 television shows have to say about its politics. Perhaps, like the author, you have gasped at Game of...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Watching television
- Part 2. Politics and television
- Part 3. televsion and our political world.
- Introduction
- Part I: Watching television
- America and the screen
- Screening America under Bush, Obama, and Trump
- Drawing lines: world politics and popular culture
- Analysing fictional television
- Part II: Politics and television
- World politics as realpolitik (in House of Cards and Game of Thrones)
- Constructing counter-terrorism (in Homeland, 24, and The West Wing)
- Imagining the president (in The West Wing, 24, and Veep)
- Part III: Television and our political world
- Ethics and inequality (in The Wire)
- Being human in a world of zombies (in The Walking Dead)
- The personal is political (in Breaking Bad)
- Conclusion.