[On March 18th,
1915, novelist
Richard Condon was born—so in honor of the 100th birthday of
this talented American writer, this week I’ve AmericanStudied political
thrillers, one of the genres in which he wrote most prolifically. Leading up to
this crowd-sourced weekend post featuring takes from fellow
AmericanStudiers—add yours in comments, please!]
Just one blog
response this week (I was too busy NeMLA-ing to request responses enough), but
a really great one, on Twitter from J.D. Schnepf, who writes, “Is
the Trump narrative a 'more extreme' thriller or are we dealing with
a totally different genre? … House of Cards is a liberal thriller, and a Clinton thriller at that. Suggests
scandal necessary to be good politician. … I agree Trump's different but I think
it's a generic difference, one that appeals to a different base than the thriller.”
She concludes, “I've been thinking about this stuff + wishing a media theorist
would reframe the Trump phenomenon for the TV pundits,” and I’m really glad she’s
done so for this blog!
Post-Northeast
MLA conventon series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. What would
you add to these crowd-ourced thoughts?
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