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Barack Obama and Celebrity Spectacle1
International Journal of Communication 3 (2009), 715-741 1932-8036/20090715 Barack Obama and Celebrity Spectacle1 DOUGLAS KELLNER University of California at Los Angeles In the contemporary era of media politics, image and media spectacle have played an increasingly important role in presidential politics and other domains of society. With the increasing tabloidization of corporate journalism, lines between news, information and entertainment have blurred, and politics has become a form of entertainment and spectacle. Candidates enlist celebrities in their election campaigns and are increasingly covered in the same way as celebrities, with tabloidized news obsessing about their private lives. In this context, presidential candidates themselves become celebrities and are packaged and sold like the products of the culture industry. In this study, I will suggest some of the ways that the logic of the spectacle promoted the candidacy of Barack Obama and how he has become a master of the spectacle and global celebrity of the top rank. I will discuss how he became a supercelebrity in the presidential primaries and general election of 2008 and utilized media spectacle to help his win the presidency. Finally, I will discuss how Obama has so far in the first 100 Days of his presidency deployed his status as global celebrity and utilized media spectacle to advance his agenda. In the contemporary era, celebrities are mass idols, venerated and celebrated by the media. The media produces celebrities and so naturally the most popular figures promoted by the media industries become celebrities. Entertainment industry figures and sports stars have long been at the center of celebrity culture, employing public relations and image specialists to put out positive buzz and stories concerning their clients, but business tycoons and politicians have also become celebrities in recent years. -
Obama, Organizer-In-Chief Daniel Sturgeon
Document generated on 09/23/2021 5:42 a.m. Sens public Obama, Organizer-in-chief Daniel Sturgeon La différence des sexes : enjeux et débats contemporains Article abstract 2009 In his essay, Daniel Sturgeon argues that while Barack Obama was a special candidate, he was no messiah. He was well organized, consistently on message, URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1064180ar made few mistakes, and otherwise ran a solid campaign that will be studied for DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1064180ar years to come. See table of contents Publisher(s) Département des littératures de langue française ISSN 2104-3272 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this article Sturgeon, D. (2009). Obama, Organizer-in-chief. Sens public. https://doi.org/10.7202/1064180ar Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Sens-Public, 2009 (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ International Web Journal www.sens-public.org Obama, Organizer-in-chief DANIEL STURGEON Abstract: In his essay, Daniel Sturgeon argues that while Barack Obama was a special candidate, he was no messiah. He was well organized, consistently on message, made few mistakes, and otherwise ran a solid campaign that will be studied for years to come. -
Joe Mccain Interview John Mccain: for Whom the Bell Tolls Kunhardt Film Foundation
JOE MCCAIN INTERVIEW JOHN MCCAIN: FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS KUNHARDT FILM FOUNDATION JOE MCCAIN Son of John McCain November 07, 2017 Interviewed by Teddy Kunhardt Total Running Time: 1 Hour 13 Minutes START TC: 01;00;00;00 QT: 01;00;10;00 TITLE Growing up a military kid QT: 01;00;15;13 JOE McCAIN: Well, of course, we had a life that was different from most people's because we kept moving from place to place because of Dad's changing duty stations and often, that would mean we'd go in the middle of a school year, November, April, and a hard part for us was all the societies had been formed. So you basically had three ways to get along if you were a really superior athlete, new students were welcomed, if you're were really good- looking, and at least I wasn't, or if you had a good rap, you know, you could tell stories, and that's how we got along. And I think that's really why John is so good as a politician is because of those, you know, is having to talk to and entreat strangers. QT: 01;01;02;03 TITLE John was a wrestler QT: 01;01;06;12 JOE McCAIN: He was a good athlete, but we didn't play major sports. We were wrestlers, and John played some weight football, meaning a weight-class football but, and he was good at it, but he was a really good wrestler. QT: 01;01;20;12 TITLE On John’s ability to fit in at new schools QT: 01;01;25;04 JOE McCAIN: That didn't take very long time. -
February 7, 2000
http://breeze.imu.edu "Know ledge is Liberty" VOL. 77, NO. 34 M M N Dow JONES -49.64 B * Extended forecast on page 2 u N RJ£ E Z E elosr 1O.SJ65JJ0 v :^vi^-rlli'-- .^MONDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 2000 —— Substance scare strikes Melrose Unknown 'dark liquid'allegedly distributed at party RIAN WESTLEY to mix the substance with beer to Rohypnol can be distributed assistant news editor "get a good high," he said. as a pill, but police said there I Melrose Caverns is an old was no evidence of the drug at An unidentified substance was lodge house located about five the party and don't believe reportedly distributed at Melrose miles north of Harrisonburg on roofies were involved. The dis- Caverns during a party Friday Route 11. The building is fre- tributor of the substance report- night is under investigation by the quently rented out by students edly told students it was from Rockingham County Sherrif's for parties. General Nutrition Centers Department Police received a call concern- (GNC), Ritchie said. Police will An employee of Melrose ing the distribution of the sub- examine the substance and if allegedly attempted to distribute stance at 1 a.m. on Saturday after nothing turns up, the substance a dark liquid substance to men the party had ended, Ritchie will then be sent off to a lab in during a party involving mem- said. Students had obtained a Richmond for additional testing. bers of Zcta Beta Tau Fraternity bottle of the substance and It may take as long as two and Alpha Chi Omega Sorority, turned it over to police, fearing months to get results back. -
THE 1920S TEXAS KU KLUX KLAN REVISITED
THE 1920s TEXAS KU KLUX KLAN REVISITED: WHITE SUPREMACY AND STRUCTURAL POWER IN A RURAL COUNTY A Dissertation by KATHERINE KUEHLER WALTERS Submitted to the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Chair of Committee, Carlos K. Blanton Co-Chair of Committee, Walter L. Buenger Committee Members, Wendy Leo Moore Sonia Hernandez Sarah McNamara Head of Department, David Vaught May 2018 Major Subject: History Copyright 2018 Katherine Kuehler Walters ABSTRACT The second Ku Klux Klan made its first public appearance in Texas at a United Confederate Veterans parade in October 1920, then quickly expanded across the state. Founder William J. Simmons created this organization as an exclusive, secretive fraternal group that both celebrated the original Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and responded to contemporary societal concerns of white native-born men and women in post-World- War-I America. Using a propaganda campaign, the organization preached the supremacy of a racialized Anglo-Saxon American identity, defined in terms of contemporary pseudo-scientific racial ideology as white, Protestant, native-born, and anti-radical, to recruit millions of members from across the nation within a few short years. Based on membership rolls and minutes of a Texas Klan chapter, this dissertation argues that, behind a façade of moral law and order, the Ku Klux Klan in rural Texas was a 1920s manifestation of a long-held racist ideology that utilized traditional practices of control through kinship, violence, and structural power to assert and protect white supremacy. -
Engagement Guide Table of Contents
ENGAGEMENT GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION > 3 USING THIS GUIDE > 4 LEARNING OBJECTIVES > 5 FILM SUMMARY > 6 KEY PEOPLE > 7 BEFORE SCREENING > 9 INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION > 11 ACTIVITIES > 16 JOHN MCCAIN | 2 INTRODUCTION Legendary six-term US senator and war hero John McCain agreed to participate in this documentary near the end of his life, providing unprecedented access to his daily activities in Washington, DC, and at home in Arizona. This sweeping account combines the senator’s own voice—culled from original interviews, commentary, and speeches—with archival news footage and previously unseen home movies and photographs. The film also features interviews with family, friends, colleagues, and other leading political figures. Senator McCain’s continuing crusade for the causes he believed in, even during his battle with brain cancer, underscores his fighting spirit and resilience. What emerges is a portrait of a maverick with an unerring sense of duty who never forgot the most important American ideals. JOHN MCCAIN | 3 USING THIS GUIDE This discussion guide is designed as a tool for high school classroom teachers and facilitators to incorporate excerpts of the 2018 HBO film John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls and over 28 hours of additional interview footage in the Interview Archive on the Kunhardt Film Foundation website. These materials are an informative and inspiring complement to teaching US history, government, and civics. They illustrate the significance of bipartisanship, moral leadership, and ethical decision-making. Through a rich visual retelling of McCain’s causes and alliances, a portrait of a man dedicated to ideas, rather than party, emerges. -
!!!Obamapluralismspectacle: Barack Obama, the Power Elite and Media Spectacle
【특집】 !!!ObamaPluralismSpectacle: Barack Obama, the Power Elite and Media Spectacle Douglas Kellner (University of California, Los Angeles) Power elite theory played a significant role in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s among certain sectors of the academic establishment, and among some individuals who would come to constitute the New Left. C. Wright Mills, for instance, in The Power Elite argued that Big Business, Big Government, Big Labor and a growing military- industrial complex were coming to dominate American society and politics.1) Mills was also one of the first to see that emergent mass media were coming to be a powerful force that served the interests of dominant elites. In White Collar, Mills stressed the crucial role of the mass media in shaping individual behavior and in inducing conformity to middle class values. He argued that the media are increasingly shaping individual aspirations and behavior and are above all promoting values of “individual success.” He also believed that entertainment media were especially potent instruments of social control because 1) C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (Boston: Beacon Press, 1956). 26 Douglas Kellner “popular culture is not tagged as ‘propaganda’ but as entertainment; people are often exposed to it when most relaxed of mind and tired of body; and its characters offer easy targets of identification, easy answers to stereotyped personal problems.”2) Mills analyzed the banalization of politics in the media, by which means “the mass media plug for ruling political symbols and personalities .”3) Perceiving the parallel between marketing commodities and selling politicians, Mills analyzed tendencies toward the commodification of politics, and, in The Power Elite, he focused on the manipulative role of media in shaping public opinion and strengthening the power of the dominant elites. -
Political Review
Volume 1, Issue 1 - September/October 2008 TheVanderbilt Political Review Senator Lamar Alexander, 1962, College of Arts & Sciences TheVanderbilt Political Review Table of Contents Staff: The USA: The World’s Biggest Loser? Jadzia Butler 3 Interview with US Senator Lamar Alexander 4 A Politics of Exclusivity Kevin Duong 5 Board Members: Pursuing the Undecided Voter Alex Marcotte 6 Jadzia Butler, President Booze, Blondes, and Bowling Willie Geist 7Sean Tierney, Vice President The Mangitude of Heroism Elizabeth G. Smith 8Elizabeth Lopez, Director of Affairs My Plea to Democrats Vann B. Bentley 9 Matthew Orton, Treasurer Energy Policies: What About Iran? Zachary Diggins 10 Conservative Democrat Leslie Kelly 11 Angelica Ibezim, Co-Director of Inconsistency with VP Selections Nathan Rothschild 13 Promotions The Constitution: Living or Dead? Nicole Franklin 14 Naveed Nanjee, Co-Director of Promotions Matthew Taylor, Director of Layout n Editors: Dan de Wit Special Thanks to: Mike Guberman Dean Mengaziol Spencer Montalvo Dean Mark Bandas, Dean of Students Emily Morgenstern Professor John Geer, Faculty Advisor Michelle Peck Professor Marc Dalhouse, Faculty Editor Lauren Ashley Rollins Professor Thomas Schwartz, Faculty Editor Casey Simmons Josh Ambrose, Franklin Graphics Amanda Thayer Chris Carroll, Director of Student Media Paul Yeh Jeff Breaux, Assistant Director of Student Media n Change the World Board: Thomas Davis Linzy Markus Rachna Patel Jessica Solomon 2 September/October 2008 From the Editor The USA: The World’s Biggest Loser? Jadzia Butler, Founder & President, The Vanderbilt Political Review This summer, the Beijing Olympics came with a lot of encouraging all this time: opening up, sharing ideas, and lessons. Throughout its course, we discovered that pol- maximizing everyone’s profits through specialization lution has effectively ruined China’s air quality to the based on comparative advantage. -
From Anti-Imperialism to Human Rights: the Vietnam War and Radical Internationalism in the 1960S and 1970S
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2017 From Anti-Imperialism To Human Rights: The Vietnam War And Radical Internationalism In The 1960s And 1970s Salar Mohandesi University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations Part of the European History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Mohandesi, Salar, "From Anti-Imperialism To Human Rights: The Vietnam War And Radical Internationalism In The 1960s And 1970s" (2017). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 2478. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2478 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2478 For more information, please contact [email protected]. From Anti-Imperialism To Human Rights: The Vietnam War And Radical Internationalism In The 1960s And 1970s Abstract This dissertation explores changing forms of internationalism among the French and U.S. radical left from the 1960s through the late 1970s. In the 1960s, Vietnamese resistance to U.S. imperialism inspired French activists to forge an international antiwar alliance with U.S. activists opposing their government’s aggression. Together, they created a form of anti-imperialist internationalism based on the right of nations to self-determination. Despite transnational protest, the United States escalated the war, leading many activists to argue that the best way to aid Vietnamese national liberation was to translate that struggle into their own domestic contexts. In so doing, they triggered a wave of upheaval that reached new heights in May 1968. But when this anti-imperialist front faced repression and imprisonment in France and the United States, these same radicals began to advance individual rights alongside anti- imperialist revolution in the early 1970s. -
February 29, 2000, Was Leap Year Day. It Also Was the First Mega-Tuesday of the Year 2000 Republican Presidential Nomination Campaign
10. VIRGINIA, WASHINGTON STATE, AND NORTH DAKOTA February 29, 2000, was Leap Year Day. It also was the first mega-Tuesday of the year 2000 Republican presidential nomination campaign. Three states - Virginia, Washington state, and North Dakota - held Republican presidential primaries that day. Mega-tuesdays tend to favor candidates such as George W. Bush, who have vast organizational and financial resources and can campaign successfully in several states at once. Mega-Tuesdays often prove difficult for upstart candidates, such as John McCain, who usually pick one of the states up for grabs and make an all-out effort to keep their campaign alive by winning there. It could be argued that the previous Republican presidential primary day, February 22, 2000, had been a mega-Tuesday. After all, both Michigan and Arizona, two major states, had voted on the same day. But Arizona was John McCain's home state. As primary election day neared, the Arizona U.S. Senator appeared certain to win. Michigan became the only contest that the press, and thus the public, was interested in. John McCain's campaign had been solidly rejuvenated by his big victory in Michigan on February 22, 2000. And there was a full seven days to campaign before the voting in Virginia, Washington state, and North Dakota on February 29, 2000. It did seem possible that McCain could pick one of the three states, pour in all his time, add in his major resource of widespread attention from the news media, and eke out a victory. But there were problems for McCain with picking the best state. -
Last Party Party of Campaign Will Be Golden Gala Oct. 30 After the Chili Cookoff, the Four Debate Parties
The ARLINGTON DEMOCRATS ARLt'i{;TO:-l COIlI'.TV OB·\OCRi\TlC cmf.\lITTEF. www.arlingtondemocrats. org November 2008 Last Party party of campaign will be Golden Gala Oct. 30 After the Chili Cookoff, the four debate parties. work to turn out an 80 percent Democratic ma- Some ways you can now comes the piece de resistance, the Join! jority in Arlington and to deliver Virginia for the help are listed on Page Campaign's final Gold Card event: The Golden Gala Obarna-Biden ticket and all other Democrats in Three. Join fellow Arlington Democrats as they get '08. And, of course, the loyal Democratic ready for the final Get Out The Vote push to turn Kitchen Crew will serve heavy hors d'oeuvres. Virginia blue November 4. (That's "heavy" as in "substantial," not "avoir- The event will be held on Halloween Eve, dupois.") Thursday. October 30, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Gold Card members attend for free. The cost atthe home of Patricia and Tom Connally, 3510 for others: $250 (Patron): $150 (Sponsor); $85 Roberts Lane. From Military Road. turn onto (Friend); $75 (Roosevelt Society); $50 (AYDI Pollard Street and proceed lip the hill, take the Seniors). first left onto Roberts Lane and go six blocks to Visit www.arlingtondemocrats.org to order 3510 on the right. Parking is available along the your tickets online or contact Judy Connally at street. (703) 536-6034. lit Staffers from the Obama and Coordi nated After the voting, there will be some more Campaigns will be honored for their relentless parties. -
A Critical Perspective on Barack Obama's Foreign Policy During The
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones 8-2010 Cascading simulation: A critical perspective on Barack Obama‘s foreign policy during the 2008 presidential election Ian P. Beier University of Nevada, Las Vegas Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations Part of the Political Science Commons, Social Influence and oliticalP Communication Commons, and the Social Psychology and Interaction Commons Repository Citation Beier, Ian P., "Cascading simulation: A critical perspective on Barack Obama‘s foreign policy during the 2008 presidential election" (2010). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 855. http://dx.doi.org/10.34917/2197517 This Thesis is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by Digital Scholarship@UNLV with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Thesis in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/ or on the work itself. This Thesis has been accepted for inclusion in UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones by an authorized administrator of Digital Scholarship@UNLV. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CASCADING SIMULATION: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON BARACK OBAMA‘S FOREIGN POLICY DURING THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL