A Woman's Place Is in the (Greasepaint) White House
How the 2016 Presidential Election Sparked a Creepy Clown Craze
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2795663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah M Gordon (0000-0002-0480-0799, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 134 |
| Issue | 531 |
| Pages | 25-52 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/jamerfolk.134.531.0025 |
| OpenAlex | W3123513003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 26 |
From August to November 2016, scary clowns captured the consciousness of much of the Western world. Driven by panic on an international scale, these clown sightings spread too quickly and broadly to conform to any existing genre classifications. This article situates the creepy clown phenomenon as a response to broad social anxieties surrounding the 2016 US presidential election
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Presidential election · Presidential system · Sociology · White (mutation) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Humor Studies and Applications · Law · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |