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Can I read American Nightmare: Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and Authoritarian Populism (Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, 117) on EtoBox?
American Nightmare: Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and Authoritarian Populism (Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, 117) by Douglas Kellner (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is American Nightmare: Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and Authoritarian Populism (Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, 117) about?
Explaining the Donald Trump phenomenon is a challenge that will occupy critical theorists of U. S. politics for years to come. Firstly, Donald Trump won the Republican primary contest and is now a contender in the U. S. Presidential Election because he is the master of media spectacle, which he has deployed to create resonant images of himself in his business career, in his effort to become a celebrity and reality-TV superstar, and now his political campaign. More disturbingly, Trump embodies Authoritarian Populism and has used racism, nationalism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and the disturbing underside of American politics to mobilize his supporters in his successful Republican primary campaign and in the hotly contested 2016 general election. The Trump phenomenon is a teachable moment that helps us understand the changes and contour of U. S. politics in the contemporary moment and the role of broadcast media, new media and social networking, and the politics of the spectacle. Trump reveals the threat of authoritarian populism, a phenomenon that is now global in scope, and the dangers of the rise to power of an individual who is highly destructive, who represents the worst of the 1
Who reads American Nightmare: Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and Authoritarian Populism (Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, 117)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Douglas Kellner (auth.)
- Publisher
- SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789463007863
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education, Political Science, Memoir