The presidents we imagine [[electronic resource] ] : 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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The presidents we imagine [[electronic resource] ] : 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 |
| 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. |
| 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.: | 9910778410603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in American thought and culture.