Description: Explores how the award-winning NBC drama offered a space for vibrant conversation about U.S. politics, identity, and culture.
Brief description: Janet McCabe is lecturer in media and creative industries at Birkbeck, University of London. She writes on feminism and television and is co-editor of several collections, including Quality TV: American Television and Beyond and Reading Sex and the City.
Review Quotes:
Places a television series of great prominence within its media and political context, showing how the series fits into the history of television and illuminating how the real presidency was affected by the depiction of the real office holder.
--Peter Rollins