Prime-Time Presidency

Trevor Parry-Giles is an associate professor of communication and an affiliated scholar with the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the University of Maryland, College Park. Shawn J. Parry-Giles is an associate professor of communication, affiliate associate professor of women's studies, and director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. Their past collaborations include Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics.

"The Prime-Time Presidency is a fine example of research, argument, and insight that elucidates the intersections of political culture, commercial media, and national mythologies in The West Wing. It should be read by fans of the program, by scholars concerned with the power of the presidency in U.S. culture, and by critics interested in the ways that popular culture draws upon and reinvigorates ideologies that define Americans as citizens in and consumers of a nationalist project."--Bonnie J. Dow, author of Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement since 1970

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Presidency, Prime-Time Popular Culture, and U.S. Nationalism 1. The West Wing as a Political Romance 2. Gendered Nationalism and The West Wing 3. Racialized Nationalism and The West Wing 4. Militarized Nationalism and The West Wing 5. The West Wing's Prime-Time Nationalism Appendix: Episode Directory Bibliography Notes