Author Description

The Fictional Lives Of American Presidents / Jeff Menne And Christian B. Long -- Early Cinema And The Classicalizing Of The Presidential Image. The Media Reconfigured: The Us Presidential Elections Of 1892 And 1896 / Charles Musser -- So Typically Southern: Abraham Lincoln, The New South, And The Romance Of Reunion / David Hoogland Noon -- Mr. Lincoln By Mr. Ford And Mr. Griffith: Image And History In American Cinema / Tom Gunning -- Wilson And The War Effort: Film, Pedagogy, And The Presidency / Josh Glick -- Fdr And The Mediated President. The Talented Mr. Roosevelt / Jennifer Fay And Scott J. Juengel -- The Vanishing President / Jonathan Auerbach -- Post-classical Presidents. Clean Cuts: Kennedy Modernism On Screen / J.d. Connor -- Lbj And The Astronauts / Jeff Menne -- Richard Nixon And The Arts Of Power / Deak Nabers -- Beyond The Reaganite Presidential Imaginary. Angry Presidents: Hollywood Film And The Post-9/11 American Presidency / Susan Jeffords -- Obama And The (raced) Presidential Imaginary / Diane Rubenstein -- The Mise-en-scene Of The Presidency. Anna Deavere Smith And Her West Wing Residencies / Jacqueline O'connor -- The Mysteries Of Washington Dc: Hollywood's White House Tunnels / Christian B. Long -- Afterword / Dana D. Nelson. Edited By Jeff Menne And Christian B. Long. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.