Next week will be a busy academic whirlwind tour of two Nordic capitals for me: Helsinki and Oslo. The two main American Studies events of the year are crammed together as Consecutive conferences: The Renvall Institute’s Helsinki do, The Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference, has reached instalment no. 12 in its fine run (it will [...]
As often happens here on this blog, because we don’t have a formal editorial process, different writers post articles related to the same or similar material, albeit from often different perspectives. See Bent’s article bellow, Barack Mean to Bubba, which also deals with the topic of this blogpost. Although we have approached the subject from [...]
Tagged 2008 Race, Myth and Symbol, Photography, Politics, Visual SemioticsBarack Obama may have committed a major political faux pas last week when he spoke out on the attitudes of some prospective working class voters: “It’s not surprising then,” he said, “that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment [...]
Tagged 2008 Race, Media and Media Theory, Popular Culture, SemioticsWhile researching examples for my last post, Postmodern Presidential Branding, I stumbled across some typesetting blogs discussing the Obama campaign’s font, or typeset; Gotham. So I was naturally interested in the typography as a visual political narrative. What does Obama’s choice of Gotham say about his campaign, about his political philosophy? I imagine that Obama [...]
Tagged Myth and Symbol, Politics, Semiotics, Visual AnalysisPhoto by Flickr user Slobug used under a Creative Commons license. The caption on the blimp (which is the first ever appropriation of a blimp in a political campaign) reads, “Who is Ron Paul? Google Ron Paul” How do you read this image? Add comments bellow.
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I came across this semiotic analysis of the above image while surfing the web this evening. In The Economist scenario, on the other hand, it’s as if the left (in a freak act of nature, in the form of a wannabe-storm cloud) is conspiring not just to high jack the country but to drive it [...]