Presidential Ethno-blooperology
Performance Misfires in the Business of "Message"-ing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2964234 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Silverstein (0000-0001-5497-3578, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 165-186 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/anq.2011.0013 |
| OpenAlex | W1984280653 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 8 |
In the spectator sport of American presidential politics a generally savored moment is the perception of a candidate's misfire or gaffe. Recorded, disseminated and reframed by evaluative commentary the mere blooper or would-be "out-take" is transformed. Whether or not it was an obvious blooper at the time, the gaffe is potentially turned into an index of something more deeply revelatory of personality, character, or identity. In our regime of "message" politics, it comes either to count as a symptomatic bit of truth about its maker, emergent with negative value despite all precaution of deliberate staging, or to count as the positively valuated, deliberately delivered telling blow that injures an opponent in the theatricalized political agōn of "message
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2019 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |