Creatures of Politics

Creatures of Politics
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9780253007568
ISBN-13 : 0253007569
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Creatures of Politics by : Michael Lempert

Download or read book Creatures of Politics written by Michael Lempert and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of campaign messaging and image-making is “a fascinating read and an illuminating look into the complex realm of political rhetoric” (Publishers Weekly). 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 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 shows to explain how these political creations come to have a life of their own. From the pandering “Flip-Flopper” to the self-reliant “Maverick,” the authors demonstrate how these figures are fashioned out of the verbal, gestural, sartorial, behavioral—as well as linguistic—matter that comprises political communication. “This book captures better than any other the way ‘messaging’ works . . . their lively account of the culture of presidential communication remains sensitive to both the comedy and the seriousness of its subject.” —Michael Warner, Yale University


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