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Within media research and cultural studies, the mediation of politicians and the play-off between versions of high and low politics are attracting increasing interest. Media and the Restyling of Politics brings together the work of leading academics in media and cultural studies to pursue an agenda of research, analysis and debate about the changing nature of political culture and its mediation. The contributors question the ways in which emerging forms of political style relate not only to new conventions of celebrity and publicity but to ideas about representation, citizenship and the democratic process. Topics covered include: celebrity politicians, the marketing of politics, identity and popular culture.
Aesthetic Representation and Political Style: Re-Balancing Identity and Difference in Media Democracy
Aesthetic Representation and Political Style: Re-Balancing Identity and Difference in Media Democracy
A Dandy in Politics
A week before national election day, on 6 May 2002, the Netherlands ‘lost their political innocence’, as many commentators chose to put it. Directly echoing the post-September 11 watershed sentiment, it was widely felt that Dutch democracy ‘would never be the same again’. Was this still the Netherlands?, many asked in profound shock over the first political murder the country had experienced since the 1672 lynching of the De Witt brothers in The Hague. The victim of this ‘un-Dutch’ event, Pim Fortuyn, a millionnaire former sociology professor and flamboyant homosexual, had meteorically risen in the polls to singlehandedly embarass ...
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