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HS The U.S. Presidency in Politics, Media, and Popular Culture (AE_HSPres)- Lecturer
- Dr. Katharina Gerund
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Thu 12:15 - 13:45, C 303
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Modulzugehörigkeit
BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A Culture (mit begleitender Independent Study Group); Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II BA American Studies Variante: Hauptmodul A Literature/Culture (mit begleitender Independent Study Group); Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Mastermodul 4,7 MA The Americas / Las Américas: Modul 4
- Contents
- With the 2020 presidential election just around the corner, this seminar sets out to examine how the U.S. Presidency figures in civil religious discourse,
how it is represented in the media, and how it is imagined in fictional texts. We will analyze political rituals and commemorative practices
from the founding fathers to Barack Obama and Donald Trump. We will discuss not only media depictions of presidents (and presidential hopefuls),
but also their usage of the dominant media of their time (radio, TV, social media) for self-fashioning and agenda-setting. And, we will examine
how popular culture has imagined U.S. Presidents, past, present, and future. Drawing on theories of race, gender, and power as well as on
scholarship on public feeling and civil sentimentalism, we will zoom in on case studies ranging from campaign spots to speeches and
civil religious events (e.g. inauguration ceremonies) and from protest songs to (auto)biographies and fictional presidents on the big and
small screens (e.g. The American President, White House Down, Scandal, The Good Fight).
- Recommended literature
- All required readings will be available on StudOn.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 10.2.2020, 19:00 and lasts till Sunday, 12.4.2020, 22:00 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2020:
- Amerikanistik, Modul E (M 4)
- Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 4)
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4)
- North America: Politics and Society (AM7)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Schwerpunktmodul Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften I (KuK I+)
- Schwerpunktmodul Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften I (KuK I)
- Schwerpunktmodul Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften II (KuK II)
- Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
- Department: Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)
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