Portraying Power: Film and Politics in the New Media Age

by Regina G. Lawrence

Book Overview

Portraying Power follows the recent trend toward using popular culture and entertainment as a vehicle for explaining politics by pushing the line of inquiry into the study of film, the form of entertainment least explored by scholars of political communication. Film studies rooted in film theory and critical cultural approaches have a long and venerable history, but political science has thus far contributed very little to nor drawn much upon it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415537479
• ISBN13: 9780415537476
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages