With the election of US President Donald Trump, the separation between high and low
politics and the line between fiction and reality has become fundamentally blurred. Yet …

Against the backdrop of the new populism, this article takes a closer look at the role of anger
in media coverage of Trump's inauguration. The article suggests that Trump's rise heralds a …

In recent years we have seen a continuation and perhaps even acceleration in the trend of
popular culture having a discernible effect on politics. From The Daily Show to candidates' …

How has popular culture become linked to politics? How is it that a form of life often
associated with fun and escapism, and often labelled as 'mere entertainment', can be …

The PCWP agenda has contributed a great deal to the discipline of world politics,
empirically, methodologically and theoretically. However, there is scope to expand upon …

Reality TV has been an immensely popular prime-time genre for close to two decades now.
It has been celebrated, vilified and analysed. It has moved into every corner of the American …

Characterizing Trump supporters either as “duped” by Fox News or as speaking from their
lived experience misses the fact that both are true. We draw on scholarship on narrative and …

This chapter considers the way the transformation of media values and political economy
has driven the resurgence of right-wing populism in America. Broadcast media have been …

This chapter argues that studying the emotional dimensions of news is essential to
understanding its political and cultural inuence, and can bring new perspectives to some …

In this article we offer a potential research agenda for the study of popular culture in IR and
outline how this research agenda could be advanced. If the incorporation of popular culture …