Parasocial politics : audiences, pop pulture, and politics /

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Imprint:	Lanham [Maryland] : Lexington Books, [2014] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States. Popular culture -- Social aspects -- United States. Popular culture -- Political aspects. Popular culture -- Social aspects. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11404854

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Other authors / contributors:	Zenor, Jason, editor.
ISBN:	9780739183908 0739183907 0739183893 9780739183892 9780739183892
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from EPUB title page (EBSCO, viewed November 11, 2014).
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.
Other form:	Print version: Parasocial politics. Lanham [Maryland] : Lexington Books, [2014]
Standard no.:	ebc1832671

Table of Contents:

Entertainment, Celebrity, and Institutions. Reading the President: audience reception of The West Wing / Jason Zenor
Studying audience subjectivity: reactions to Death of a President / James C. Rhoads
The Wire and urban life: Baltimore responds to its image / Gregory Adamo
Celebrity persuasion in the political arena: a study of message effects on young voters' political opinions in the 2008 election / Cynthia Nichols and Carly T. McKenzie
Fandom, Fantasy, and Real Politics. Storytelling through world-building: audience perceptions of science fiction television / Laura Osur
Are you a Lebowski achiever? the fans of the movie The Big Lebowski, Jungian synchronicity, and the Iraq War / William Ashton
The dark knight of the soul: netnographic explorations of religion, politics, and Batman / Bryan J. Carr
Millenials, Diversity, and Entertainment. Millenials, citizenship, and How I Met Your Mother / Alison N. Novak
Talking racial politics online: the progressive potential of television dramas in postracial America and parasocial contact / Carole V. Bell
"Nigga you gay": millennial audience reception of The Boondocks / David Moody and Jason Zenor.

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