Donald Trump in the Frontier Mythology

by Olena Leipnik

Overview

This book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the frontier myth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032541327
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/29/2024
Series:	Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
Pages:	74
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Olena Leipnik is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Sam Houston State University, USA.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. "The toughest guy in the office"

The tough guy theme in politics

Masculine politics and the origin of the tough

2. Theodore Roosevelt: the becoming of the frontier and the arrival of the hero

Performative frontier: staging the myth

The enduring contradiction of myth

The land and the man

The man and the towners

The girl: gendered opposition

3. Ronald Reagan: extension of the frontier and inversion of the hero

Myth gains primacy

The exhauster of myth

4. Donald Trump: recovered meanings of the frontier and resurgence of the hero

Back to the beginning

New scapes: cowboy goes metropolitan

Myth continued

5. Vladimir Putin: "stolen" meanings of the frontier and a supplementing hero

Here comes the villain

"Is he one of us?"

Concluding thoughts