Performing Presidents : The Star Power of Reagan, Trump, and Zelensky (Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 240 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781350521940

Full Description

Unpacking the phenomenon of celebrity presidents, this book explores how theatrical techniques function as expedient yet potentially dangerous tools in contemporary politics.

What can be done once politics is seen only as performance, and hybrid wars or nuclear annihilation are perceived to be just another spectacle?

By limiting its scope to former actors and showbusiness figures, this book centers on the prominent 20th- and 21st-century populist leaders Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and Volodymyr Zelensky. It explores how such figures transitioned from theatrical engagements to the presidency, including how their political life was reframed as a theatrical event.

This book reveals the various ways these presidents approached political performance and incorporated entertainment elements into it in order to shift the norms of political representation and disrupt communication modes. It further explores how these populist figures personalized and fictionalized their presidential role by means of storytelling and the bodily enactment of their myth.

In contrast to the methodology of TV entertainment used in Reagan's era, modern technology has permitted Trump and Zelensky to embrace an innovative 'distributed aesthetics' approach. Owing to its virtual nature, this technique transcends spatial and temporal limitations, while simultaneously rendering celebrity presence ubiquitous and exaggerating the illusion of intimacy between ruler and populace.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Setting the Stage
Performing Rulers from the Past
Performing Presidents Take the Stage
Politics as Theater
From 20th-Century Entertainment to 21st-Century Virtuality

Chapter 1: From Screen to Power: Crafting Presidential Personas Through Acting

Chapter 2: Catapulting into the Office
A Rendezvous with Destiny
'Make America Great Again': The Reality Show
The Virtual Campaign

Chapter 3: Performing Presidency
The Great Communicator's Storytelling
Alternative Reality
Telematic Encounters
The Notorious Phone Call

Chapter 4: The Glamour of Governance
Celebrities Invade the Political Sphere
Celebrities in Presidential Roles

Conclusion: Theatricality's Looming Threat to Democracy

Notes
References
Index

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