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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series |
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Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Presidency Made for Television -- Part I: Donald Trump and a Media Presidency -- 1. The Imaginary President: Donald Trump's Narcissism and American TV -- 2. Our Cartoon President: Donald J. Trump's White House as an Animated Comedy -- 3. The Mob, the Reds, and the TV President: The Changing Role of Televised Hearings in a Post-Decency Era -- Part II: Fact, Fiction, and Critique -- 4. The Political Is Personal: Disturbing Form, Revisiting Liberalism, and Resisting Trump's America in The Good Fight |
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5. On the Value of Uncertainty in Uncertain Times (Or, "Pay Attention, You Assholes!"): Donald Trump, David Simon, and The Plot Against America -- 6. From Political Depression to "Satiractivism": Late-Night in the Tribal Era of Trump -- Part III: Genre, Style, and Reception -- 7. Star Trek: Discovery and Controversy: "The War Without, the War Within" -- 8. Paranoia, the Hive Mind, and Empowered Sisterhood: American Horror Story's Trump-Haunted World -- 9. Teaching Demons and Eating Nazis: Morality in Trump-Era Fantasy Comedy |
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10. First as Farce, Then as Tragedy: The Hilarious Nihilism of the Trump-Influenced Final Season of Veep -- Part IV: Power and Gender -- 11. Fosse/Verdon and the #MeToo Moment -- 12. "Grab Them by the Pussy": The Sexual Politics of Touch in The Handmaid's Tale -- 13. The Sound of Money and Power: Musical Scoring in Trump-Era Television Drama -- Part V: Renegotiating the Past -- 14. Remember the Time When: Annotations on Black Histories in Kenya Barris's Black-ish -- 15. You Can't Go Home Again: The Recuperative Reboot and the Trump-Era Sitcom |
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16. "The Cost of Lies": Chernobyl, Politics, and Collective Memory -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
Explores the ways television documents, satirizes, and critiques the political era of the Trump presidency |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Albrecht, Michael Mario
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Andrews, Hannah
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Castle, Kathryn
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Cohan, Steven
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Culpepper, K. Scott
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Dreher, Kwakiutl L
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Ford, Jessica
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Forde, Teresa
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Frame, Gregory
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| ISBN |
9780814349373 |
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0814349374 |
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