Trumping the Media

About this book

"Donald Trump emerged as a popular culture figure in the 1980s, and the three decades between his rise to prominence and his ascendency to the presidency have seen myriad shifts in the landscapes of popular culture, political culture, and media technologies. In Trumping the Media , Michael Mario Albrecht examines the ways those shifts enabled a polarizing political figure to engage those conditions in cultural, politics, and media, and to exploit their logic for personal and political gain. Those shifts have reconfigured the ways people engage politics, the relationship between celebrities, politicians and their audiences, the relationship between entertainment and politics, and ultimately the very notion of truth and facts. Rather than being a political anomaly, Trump is the logical extension and exemplar of the shifts in media, culture, and politics that have transpired in the last 35 years."--