The Trump Presidency in Editorial Cartoons

Natalia Mielczarek (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

186 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1216-6 (ISBN)

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The Trump Presidency in Editorial Cartoons engages with close to one thousand editorial cartoons to analyze the visual representations of President Donald Trump and his responses to six news events during his term in office. Natalia Mielczarek traces the mechanisms through which the drawings construct the president’s image and their potential rhetorical consequences for interpretation. Through this analysis, Mielczarek argues that the right-leaning cartoons largely erase the president’s likeness from their plotlines, acting as a shield against accountability for Trump. Left-leaning cartoons, on the other hand, tend to clone the president and exaggerate his image in most of their stories, often functioning as tools of symbolic censure and punishment. Through these de- and re-contextualization tactics that make President Trump either largely absent or hyper-present in the narrative, the cartoons construct inadvertent rhetorical paradoxes and coalesce around ideological heroes and villains. This result, Mielczarek posits, more closely resembles partisan propaganda, rather than political commentary and social critique. Scholars of communication, political science, and media studies will find this book of particular interest.

Natalia Mielczarek is associate professor in the School of Communication at Virginia Tech.

Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter 1: The U.S. Press, Editorial Cartoons and the Presidency

Chapter 2: The 2016 Presidential Election Victory

Chapter 3: Family Separation on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Chapter 4: President Trump Goes to North Korea

Chapter 5: President Trump’s First Impeachment

Chapter 6: President Trump’s Covid-19 Pandemic Response

Chapter 7: President Trump and the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol Attack

Chapter 8: Conclusions

Bibliography

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Lexington Studies in Political Communication
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-6669-1216-6 / 1666912166
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-1216-6 / 9781666912166
Zustand	Neuware