Trump and Putin in Media Mythologies

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-367-43586-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics

Trump and Putin in Media Mythologies provides an account of the media portrayal of two presidents – Donald Trump of the United States and Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation – as mythologized figures.

 

The book delineates the mythologizing strategies media employ to build these two leaders’ narratives and the logic of mythologization of the overall political process. It addresses the construction of the two presidential imageries and the political and cultural needs fulfilled by the archetypes they embody. The volume provides a comparative analysis of two culture-specific narrating strategies that resonate with the two -  American and Russian - electorates.

 

This interdisciplinary account combines the areas of media studies, myth studies, political anthropology, and cultural studies. It will also be an essential read for scholars and graduate students interested in political communication, public relations, and cognitive marketing.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leipnik, Olena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Current Affairs
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface   

Introduction  

Part 1: Nationhood, Presidency, Myth

Chapter 1. National mythology and the meanings of presidency

Chapter 2. Delivering the presidential message

Chapter 3. The synchronizing power of myth  

Part 2: The Memo’s Imprint 

Chapter 4. The Technology of storytelling

Chapter 5. News as myth

Chapter 6. One Stage, Two Heroes, Three Scripts: Media Construction of Trump–Putin relations    

Part 3: Culture Specific Presidential Imagery

Chapter 7. Culture specific targeting of the electorate: myth and fairy tale

Chapter 8. Temporal dimension of heroic chronotopes

Chapter 9. Spatial axes of power 

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Olena Leipnik holds a doctorate degree in Philosophical Anthropology & Philosophy of Culture. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Sam Houston State University, USA.