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Can politics be combined with entertainment? Can political involvement and participation be fun? Politics and popular culture are converging all the time, whether it's in Arnold Schwarzenegger's election as governor of California or in political television dramas and movies like The West Wing and Dave. This book encourages readers to think about how links between entertainment and politics have the potential to rejuvenate citizenship, endorse civic values, and sustain civic commitment. Instead of discarding the popular as irrelevant or dangerous to the democratic process, Liesbet van Zoonen shows us the possibilities for increasing political knowledge and participation through the arenas of politics and popular music, political "soaps," political television dramas, and politicians as celebrities. A first-rate starting point for debate, Entertaining the Citizen will stimulate and entertain students and general readers alike.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Media studies

• Full title: Entertaining the Citizen
• Author: Liesbet Van Zoonen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780742529076
• ISBN: 074252907X
• ID: 04125326
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Weight: 284 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 151 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. November 2004

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