1. STATES OF EMERGENCY.
- Author
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Musgrove, Brian
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AESTHETICS , *MASS media & politics , *AESTHETICS of mass media , *POLITICAL culture ,AUSTRALIAN politics & government, 1945- - Abstract
The article discusses the role of aesthetics in politics, especially in Australia under Prime Minister John Howard, and also Kevin Rudd. Political stagecraft in the era of mass media is discussed, in particular the importance to conservative politics of communicating a state of emergency through the manipulation of symbols and imagery.
- Published
- 2008