This book explores the relationship between fictional television and American world politics in the period from 9/11 through to the presidency of Donald J. Trump. This period comprises a second golden age for fictional TV. The book therefore explores some of the best TV of all time across two decades of heightened political controversy. -- .
This book explores the relationship between fictional television and American world politics in the period from 9/11 through to the presidency of Donald J. Trump. This period comprises a second golden age for fictional TV. The book therefore explores some of the best TV of all time across two decades of heightened political controversy. -- .
Jack Holland is the Russell F. and Marian J. Blowers professor of Christian ministries at Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College. Jack frequently conducts workshops and seminars in lay-counseling, ministerial ethics, sexuality, grief, and other pastoral care issues.
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Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction Part I: Watching television 1 America and the screen 2 Screening America under Bush, Obama, and Trump 3 Drawing lines: world politics and popular culture 4 Analysing fictional television Part II: Politics and television 5 World politics as realpolitik (in House of Cards and Game of Thrones) 6 Constructing counter-terrorism (in Homeland, 24, and The West Wing) 7 Imagining the president (in The West Wing, 24, and Veep) Part III: Television and our political world 8 Ethics and inequality (in The Wire) 9 Being human in a world of zombies (in The Walking Dead) 10 The personal is political (in Breaking Bad) Conclusion Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction Part I: Watching television 1 America and the screen 2 Screening America under Bush, Obama, and Trump 3 Drawing lines: world politics and popular culture 4 Analysing fictional television Part II: Politics and television 5 World politics as realpolitik (in House of Cards and Game of Thrones) 6 Constructing counter-terrorism (in Homeland, 24, and The West Wing) 7 Imagining the president (in The West Wing, 24, and Veep) Part III: Television and our political world 8 Ethics and inequality (in The Wire) 9 Being human in a world of zombies (in The Walking Dead) 10 The personal is political (in Breaking Bad) Conclusion Bibliography Index
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