Contrasting strong women and multiculturalism with portrayals of a heroic white male leading the nation into battle; The Prime-Time Presidency explores the NBC drama The West Wing; paying particular attention to its role in promoting cultural meaning about the presidency and U.S. nationalism. Based in a careful; detailed analysis of the "first term" of The West Wings President Josiah Bartlet; this criticism highlights the ways the text negotiates powerful tensions and complex ambiguities at the base of U.S. national identity--particularly the role of gender; race; and militarism in the construction of U.S. nationalism. Unlike scattered and disparate collections of essays; Trevor Parry-Giles and Shawn J. Parry-Giles offer a sustained; ideologically driven criticism of The West Wing. The Prime-time Presidency presents a detailed critique of the program rooted in presidential history; an appreciation of televisions power as a source of political meaning; and televisions contribution to the articulation of U.S. national identity.
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