The presidents we imagine : two centuries of White House fictions on the page, on the stage, onscreen, and online / / Jeff Smith
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Smith Jeff <1958->
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| Titolo: |
The presidents we imagine : two centuries of White House fictions on the page, on the stage, onscreen, and online / / Jeff Smith
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| Pubblicazione: | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 391 p. ) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina: | 700/.45873099 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Political fiction, American - History and criticism | |
| Presidents in literature | |
| Political plays, American - History and criticism | |
| Presidents in motion pictures | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Imagining a president: George Washington and his fictional predecessors -- Seeing double: clowns, carnival, and satire in the Antebellum years -- Deep, yet transparent: myth, mystery, and "common sense" in post-Civil War presidential fictions -- A simple, honest man: presidential character in the fictions of the 1930's and 1940's -- The human element: presidential strength, weakness, and difference in the 1960's and 1970's -- Who am I? Presidents and their "issues" in fictions of the 1990's -- Fictitious times: imagining presidents at the turn of the millennium. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In The Presidents We Imagine, Jeff Smith examines the presidency's ever-changing place in the American imagination. Ranging across different media and analyzing works of many kinds, some familiar and some never before studied, he explores the evolution of presidential fictions, their central themes, the impact on them of new and emerging media, and their largely unexamined role in the nation's real politics. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The presidents we imagine |
| ISBN: | 0-299-23183-6 |
| 9786612270581 | |
| 1-282-27058-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248164903316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Studies in American thought and culture.