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Parasocial Politics : Audiences, Pop Culture, and Politics.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739183908
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Parasocial PoliticsDDC classification:
  • 306
LOC classification:
  • P96.A83 -- .P373 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I: Entertainment, Celebrity, and Institutions -- 1 Reading the President -- 2 Studying Audience Subjectivity -- 3 The Wire and Urban Life -- 4 Celebrity Persuasion in the Political Arena -- II: Fandom, Fantasy, and Real Politics -- 5 Storytelling through World-Building -- 6 Are You a Lebowski Achiever? -- 7 The Dark Knight of the Soul -- III: Millenials, Diversity, and Entertainment -- 8 Millennials, Citizenship, and How I Met Your Mother -- 9 Talking Racial Politics Online -- 10 "Nigga You Gay" -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors -- About the Editor.
Summary: Parasocial Politics explores how consumers form complex relationships with media texts and characters, and how these readings exist in the nexus between the real and fictional worlds. This collection of empirical studies analyzes how actual consumers read the text and the overt and covert political messages encoded in popular culture.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I: Entertainment, Celebrity, and Institutions -- 1 Reading the President -- 2 Studying Audience Subjectivity -- 3 The Wire and Urban Life -- 4 Celebrity Persuasion in the Political Arena -- II: Fandom, Fantasy, and Real Politics -- 5 Storytelling through World-Building -- 6 Are You a Lebowski Achiever? -- 7 The Dark Knight of the Soul -- III: Millenials, Diversity, and Entertainment -- 8 Millennials, Citizenship, and How I Met Your Mother -- 9 Talking Racial Politics Online -- 10 "Nigga You Gay" -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors -- About the Editor.

Parasocial Politics explores how consumers form complex relationships with media texts and characters, and how these readings exist in the nexus between the real and fictional worlds. This collection of empirical studies analyzes how actual consumers read the text and the overt and covert political messages encoded in popular culture.

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