ISBN:
9783825364571
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (421 p)
Series Statement:
Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian American Academy v.16
Series Statement:
Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian American Academy v.16
Parallel Title:
Print version Electoral Cultures : American Democracy and Choice
DDC:
303.3
Keywords:
Democracy -- United States
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Political culture -- United States
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United States -- Politics and government
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Presidential elections are essential to US culture, shaping the nation's stability and global influence. This volume is the first to establish an interdisciplinary platform for a broad investigation of election mechanics and legacies. Historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and cultural theorists shed light on the narratives of election successes and failures. Beginning with the struggle for voting rights and extending to current representations of candidates and campaigns, Electoral Cultures examines elections as complex cultural phenomena. Analyzing political processes and perso
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Georgiana Banita and Sascha Pöhlmann Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of the Presidency: Elections and American Culture; Suffrage and Disenfranchisement; Manfred Berg - From White Supremacy to the White House: Racial Disfranchisement, Party Politics, and Black Political Integration; Volker Depkat - African Americans Voting: Visual Narratives of the Reconstruction Period; Sascha Pöhlmann - Vote With a Bullet: The Aesthetics of Assassination in Stephen King's The Dead Zone and ""11/22/63""
Description / Table of Contents:
Georgiana Banita - Voting for American Energy: Elections, Oil, and US CultureVoting, Campaigning, and Electability; Michael Hochgeschwender - The Rise and Decline of the American Catholic Vote; Georg Schild - Lincoln the Campaigner: The Issue of Slavery in Election Campaigns of the 1850s; Andrew Gross - Goldwater's Phoenix: Emerging from the Ashes of an Unsuccessful Presidential Campaign; Gerd Hurm - A Crisis of Rhetoric? 2012 Campaign Speeches and the Dilemma of American Exceptionalism; Mediating Choice: Visibility, Performance, Race
Description / Table of Contents:
Diana Owen - The Political Culture of American Presidential Elections: A Media PerspectiveAndreas Etges - "A Great Box-Office Actor": John F. Kennedy, Television, and the 1960 Presidential Election; Reingard M. Nischik and Gabriele Metzler - Culture and Charisma: The 2008 Presidential Election; Sabine Sielke - The Blackening of Barack Obama and the Browning of America, or: How Race and Ethnicity Mattered in the 2012 Presidential Race; Symbolism and Narrative; Brendon O'Connor - Buying into American Dreams: US Presidential Elections, Exceptionalism, and Global Power
Description / Table of Contents:
Karsten Fitz - Crafting the Presidential Story: The Electoral Narrative in Recent Presidential CampaignsSebastian M. Herrmann - "To Tell a Story to the American People": Elections, Postmodernism, and Popular Narratology; Greta Olson - Confessing Self, Confessing Nation: Life Narratives in the 2012 Presidential Election; Sabrina Hüttner - "Stay in Control of Your Narrative, If You Let the Other Guys Define You": Hockey Moms, Hawks, and Heroes on the (Political) Stage; Antje Dallmann - Absences and Presences: Campaigns, Candidates, and Voters in American Film; Contributors
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