Journal article
Entertainment Politics as a Modernist Project in a Baudrillard World
Communication theory, v 29(4), pp 421-440
01 Nov 2019
Abstract
As "post-truth" was Oxford Dictionaries' 2016 word of the year, late-night comedians were featured on Time magazine's cover bearing the tagline "The Seriously Partisan Politics of Late-Night Comedy." This article attempts to frame what is going on in theoretical and philosophical terms. By a "Baudrillard World," we mean the post-truth era that was first announced by theorists such as Jean Baudrillard. By a modernist project, we mean that the late night comedians are making various rhetorical moves to reassert a commitment to truth incompletely secured by conventional, cool-style journalism. We identify a number of offenses against truth that the late night comedians counter in an attempt to rescue not just particular facts but the very notion of truth.
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- Title
- Entertainment Politics as a Modernist Project in a Baudrillard World
- Creators
- Julia C. Richmond - Drexel UniversityDouglas V. Porpora - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Communication theory, v 29(4), pp 421-440
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 20
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000509550000003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85065084419
- Other Identifier
- 991019168792504721
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