Showbiz politics : Hollywood in American political life

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Label

Showbiz politics : Hollywood in American political life

Title remainder

Hollywood in American political life

Statement of responsibility

Kathryn Cramer Brownell

Creator

• Brownell, Kathryn Cramer

Author

• Brownell, Kathryn Cramer

Subject

• Filmproduktion
• Filmschauspieler
• HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
• History
• Inszenierung
• Los Angeles- Hollywood
• Motion picture actors and actresses -- Political activity
• Motion picture actors and actresses -- Political activity -- United States
• Motion picture industry -- Political aspects
• Motion picture industry -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Motion picture producers and directors -- Political activity
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology
• Politics and culture
• Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Politics and government
• Politik
• Politik och film, USA
• Politisches Engagement
• USA
• United States
• United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Political activity
• 1900-1999

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

Conventional wisdom holds that John F. Kennedy was the first celebrity president, in no small part because of his innate television savvy. But, as Kathryn Brownell shows, Kennedy capitalized on a tradition and style rooted in California politics and the Hollywood studio system. Since the 1920s, politicians and professional showmen have developed relationships and built organizations, institutionalizing Hollywood styles, structures, and personalities in the American political process. Brownell explores how similarities developed between the operation of a studio, planning a successful electoral campaign, and ultimately running an administration. Using their business and public relations know-how, figures such as Louis B. Mayer, Bette Davis, Jack Warner, Harry Belafonte, Ronald Reagan, and members of the Rat Pack made Hollywood connections an asset in a political world being quickly transformed by the media. Brownell takes readers behind the camera to explore the negotiations and relationships that developed between key Hollywood insiders and presidential candidates from Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton, analyzing how entertainment replaced party spectacle as a strategy to raise money, win votes, and secure success for all those involved. She demonstrates how Hollywood contributed to the rise of mass-mediated politics, making the twentieth century not just the age of the political consultant, but also the age of showbiz politics

Member of

• EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection-North America

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

302.23/43097309045

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PN1993.5.U6

LC item number

B758 2014eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography