Jack Holland

Fictional television and American politics (eBook, ePUB)

From 9/11 to Donald Trump

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We live in a golden age of fictional television, while our politics has never been so controversial. This book explores that relationship, asking what it is that some of America's most popular TV shows have to say about its politics. Perhaps, like the author, you have gasped at Game of Thrones and balked at Breaking Bad. This book illustrates how, far from being outside of politics, shows such as these are deeply political, helping to fill our world with meaning. To this end, the book analyses Game of Thrones, House of Cards, The West Wing, Homeland, 24, Veep, The Wire, The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad. These are all politically consequential shows that shape how we feel and think about world politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526134240
• Artikelnr.: 57471290

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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