Archie Bunker for President

How One Television Show Remade American Politics

Oscar Winberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2025
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-9090-2 (ISBN)

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Delving into the intersection of television entertainment and American politics during the 1970s, focusing on the sitcom All in the Family, this book explores how political campaigns, social movements, and legislators leveraged the show’s popularity for their own agendas. From Archie Bunker’s reactionary bigotry, to Edith Bunker’s symbolic role in the Equal Rights Amendment campaign, and the show’s creator and producer Norman Lear’s defiance against government censorship, Oscar Winberg uncovers the profound impact of television on political strategies and institutions.

Oscar Winberg’s capacious research, including in Norman Lear’s private archive, shows how All in the Family set the stage for today’s spectacle politics. It also reveals how politicians, from Richard Nixon to Hillary Rodham Clinton, skillfully utilized entertainment television to connect with audiences, demonstrating the evolution of personality politics that culminated in the political rise of Donald Trump. With a keen focus on the transformative power of television entertainment, this multifaceted history expands the discussion on the interconnected roles of media and politics, offering a new exploration into how one television show produced a profound cultural shift in American politics.

Oscar Winberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and the John Morton Center for North American Studies at the University of Turku.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2025
Zusatzinfo	12 illustrations - 12 halftones, notes, bibl., index - 12 Halftones, unspecified - Index - Bibliography
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	25 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4696-9090-X / 146969090X
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-9090-2 / 9781469690902
Zustand	Neuware