Politicotainment

• Title: Politicotainment
• Author: Politicotainment
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Film TV & radio
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions (approx. mm): 155 x 232 x 16

Product Description

Politicotainment focuses on how political life is interpreted negotiated and represented by television entertainment in particular by drama series late night comedy and reality-based programs. Real political issues are converging in today's television tableau prompting questions about performance interactivity and engagement. The authors in this collection share the notion that entertainment formats are important sources of political culture and inform political processes. Politicotainment links theories about the relationship between public and private fact and fiction and politics and popular culture to the changes taking place in the television industry journalism celebrity activism and political content in entertainment programming.