The Kennedy Obsession - The American Myth of JFK

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-231-10798-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 542 g

John F. Kennedy was not only a president, but also a symbol for America's most cherished ideas. In The Kennedy Obsession, John Hellmann takes a thoroughly original approach to understanding Kennedy's star power and his carefully crafted public image. Tracing Kennedy's self-creation as diligent scholar, bashful hero, and sensitive rebel-cued by cultural figures such as Lord Byron, Ernest Hemingway, and Cary Grant-and the images of Kennedy in the aftermath of his assassination, Hellmann reveals the painstaking transformation of private life into public persona, of a man into perhaps the major American myth of our time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hellmann, John

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: A Bedside VisitOne: How Kennedy Awoke: Jack's Reading and Why England SleptTwo: John Hersey's "Survival": A Literary Experiment and Its Political AdaptationThree: The Old Man and the Boy: Papa Hemingway and Profiles in CourageFour: The Hollywood Screen and Kennedy's Televised Showdown with TrumanFive: The Erotics of a PresidencySix: An Assassination and Its Fictions

Über Autor(innen)

John Hellmann is professor of English at the Ohio State University at Lima and the author of American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam and Fables of Fact: The New Journalism as New Fiction.