Michael Lempert

Creatures of Politics

Media, Message, and the American Presidency

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It's a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate's every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This book explores political communication in American presidential politics, focusing on what political insiders call message. Message, Michael Lempert and Michael Silverstein argue, is not simply an individual's positions on the issues but the craft used to fashion the creature the public sees as the candidate. Lempert and Silverstein examine some of the revelatory moments in debates, political ads, interviews, speeches, and talk… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Silverstein, Michael

ISBN: 978-0-253-00756-8
EAN: 9780253007568
Produktnummer: 20448305
Verlag: Indiana University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 284 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'843 KB
Abbildungen: 24 b&w illus.

Über den Autor

Michael Lempert is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and author of Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery.Michael Silverstein is Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology and in the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. His published works include Talking Politics: The Substance of Style from Abe to W.