The Performative Presidency by Jason L Mast
The Performative Presidency brings together literatures describing presidential leadership strategies, public understandings of citizenship, and news production and media technologies between the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Bill Clinton, and details how the relations between these spheres have changed over time. Jason L. Mast demonstrates how interactions between leaders, publics, and media are organized in a theatrical way, and argues that mass mediated plot formation and character development play an increasing role in structuring the political arena. He shows politics as a process of ongoing performances staged by motivated political actors, mediated by critics, and interpreted by audiences, in the context of a deeply rooted, widely shared system of collective representations. The interdisciplinary framework of this book brings together a semiotic theory of culture with concepts from the burgeoning field of performance studies.-
The Making of English National Identity
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Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization
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Colonial Fantasies
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The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis
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Music and Social Movements
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Trust
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Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles
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The Simulation of Surveillance
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Queer Fictions of the Past
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Avoiding Politics
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Evil and Human Agency
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The Playing Self
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Intellectuals and the Nation
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Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology
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Matters of Culture
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Genealogies of Citizenship
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Struggles for Subjectivity
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Difference Troubles
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Identity without Selfhood
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Nationalism and Literature
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Challenging Codes
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Nation and Commemoration
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Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution
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Cultural Trauma
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Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times
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Thinking through Television
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The Unfinished Revolution
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Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain
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Performing Civility
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Social Performance
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The Work of Global Justice
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Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society
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A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience
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Distant Suffering
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French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere
'Given the large number of books that examine Bill Clinton and his presidency, it is extraordinary that Jason Mast tells us something new in his compelling accountBy viewing Bill Clinton through the lens of performance theory, Mast manages to elucidate in new ways the 'disconnect' between the public and private Clinton that continues to intrigue his friends and foes.' Mabel Berezin, Cornell University
'The Performative Presidency is essential reading for anyone concerned with leadership, media, and publics in modern democracies. Jason Mast's fascinating study of the drama of the Clinton years demonstrates convincingly that presidential power is cultural power, created and challenged in extended performance.' Lyn Spillman, University of Notre Dame
'Drawing on recent work in cultural theory, The Performative Presidency is a breath of fresh air for the study of Bill Clinton's rise and fall, and it casts new light on the problems and prospects of presidential leadership more generally. An innovative, provocative and absorbing book!' Jeffrey K. Tulis, University of Texas, Austin
'The Performative Presidency is a clearly written and compact book on an important topic too often ignored by social scientists: the performative dimension of politics … Mast's book is a welcome contribution to the study of politics, and a fine example of the value of inter-disciplinary work. It ought to be read outside sociology by political scientists as well as media and communication scholars.' Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Media, Culture and Society
'The Performative Presidency is essential reading for anyone concerned with leadership, media, and publics in modern democracies. Jason Mast's fascinating study of the drama of the Clinton years demonstrates convincingly that presidential power is cultural power, created and challenged in extended performance.' Lyn Spillman, University of Notre Dame
'Drawing on recent work in cultural theory, The Performative Presidency is a breath of fresh air for the study of Bill Clinton's rise and fall, and it casts new light on the problems and prospects of presidential leadership more generally. An innovative, provocative and absorbing book!' Jeffrey K. Tulis, University of Texas, Austin
'The Performative Presidency is a clearly written and compact book on an important topic too often ignored by social scientists: the performative dimension of politics … Mast's book is a welcome contribution to the study of politics, and a fine example of the value of inter-disciplinary work. It ought to be read outside sociology by political scientists as well as media and communication scholars.' Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Media, Culture and Society
Jason L. Mast is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Karl Mannheim Chair for Cultural Studies at Zeppelin University, Germany.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107026186 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107026180 |
| Title | The Performative Presidency |
| Author | Jason L Mast |
| Series | Cambridge Cultural Social Studies |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2012-10-18 |
| Number of pages | 212 |
| Prizes | Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2013 |
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