Entertaining the Citizen - When Politics and Popular Culture Converge

Informationen zum Autor By Van Liesbet Zoonen Klappentext Can politics be combined with entertainment? Can political involvement and participation be fun? Politics and popular culture are converging all the time, whether itOs in Arnold SchwarzeneggerOs election as governor of California or in political television dramas and movies like The West Wing and Dave. This book encourages readers to think about how links between entertainment and politics have the potential to rejuvenate citizenship, endorse civic values, and sustain civic commitment. Zusammenfassung Can politics be combined with entertainment? Can political involvement and participation be fun? Politics and popular culture are converging all the time! whether itOs in Arnold SchwarzeneggerOs election as governor of California or in political television dramas and movies like The West Wing and Dave. This book encourages readers to think about how links between entertainment and politics have the potential to rejuvenate citizenship! endorse civic values! and sustain civic commitment.

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• Autori: Liesbet van Zoonen, Liesbet Zoonen, Liesbet Van Zoonen
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 23.11.2004
• EAN: 9780742529069
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-2906-9
• Pagine: 192
• Serie: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture; Critical Media Studies (Hardco; Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture; Critical Media Studies (Hardco; Critical Media Studies: Instit
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Società; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Politics & government, Politics and government