Politicotainment
ISBN:
978-0-8204-8114-2
Verlag:
Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
Land des Verlags:
Vereinigte Staaten
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.04.2007
Bearbeiter:
Reihe:
Popular Culture and Everyday Life
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
296
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Politicotainment focuses on how political life is interpreted, negotiated, and represented by television entertainment, in particular by drama series, late night comedy, and «reality-based» programs. Real political issues are converging in today’s television tableau, prompting questions about performance, interactivity, and engagement. The authors in this collection share the notion that entertainment formats are important sources of political culture, and inform political processes. Politicotainment links theories about the relationship between public and private, fact and fiction, and politics and popular culture to the changes taking place in the television industry, journalism, celebrity activism, and political content in entertainment programming.
Schlagwörter
Biografische Anmerkung
The Editor: After receiving her Ph.D. in political science from Stockholm University, Kristina Riegert became Associate Professor in Journalism at Södertörn University College. She is the author of «Nationalising» Foreign Conflict (1998) and The Image War: NATO’s Battle for Kosovo in the British Media (2003) and editor of News of the Other: Tracing Identity in Scandinavian Constructions of the Eastern Baltic Region (2004). Her research interests are globalization, comparative television news and journalist cultures, the role of propaganda and media in armed conflicts, television’s role for national identity, and politics in entertainment programming.
