Kitsch-or tacky, simplistic art and art forms-is used by various political actors to shape and limit what we know about ourselves, what we know about our past and our future, as well as what our present-day public policy options might be. Using a plethora of historic and contemporary examples (such as Forrest Gump and Boys Town), the author maps out how kitsch is employed in various political and educational sites to shape public opinion and understandings.
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In early 1995 the new Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, proposed a radical retrenchment of the U.S. welfare state. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, United States, Moral Majority, Murray Edelman, Ronald Reagan, Christian Right, The Party of Fear, Constructing the Political Spectacle, White House, University of Chicago Press, President Reagan, Basic Books, The Way We Never Were, Vintage Books, Hester Prynne, Bill Clinton, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Oxford University Press, Pitied But Not Entitled, Rush Limbaugh's America, Dirty Politics, Divided We Fall, Linda Gordon, Soviet Union, Stephanie Coontz New!
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In early 1995 the new Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, proposed a radical retrenchment of the U.S. welfare state. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
political kitsch, child fixing, social traditionalism, political spectacle, militia movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Moral Majority, Murray Edelman, Ronald Reagan, Christian Right, The Party of Fear, Constructing the Political Spectacle, White House, University of Chicago Press, President Reagan, Basic Books, The Way We Never Were, Vintage Books, Hester Prynne, Bill Clinton, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Oxford University Press, Pitied But Not Entitled, Rush Limbaugh's America, Dirty Politics, Divided We Fall, Linda Gordon, Soviet Union, Stephanie Coontz New!
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- Constructing the Political Spectacle by Murray Edelman on 9 pages
- Television And The Crisis Of Democracy (Interventions--Theory & Contemporary Politics) by Douglas Kellner on 7 pages
- Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins on 5 pages
- American Families: A Multicultural Reader by Stephanie Coontz on 5 pages
- The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz on 5 pages
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