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Maria Elizabeth Grabe and Erik Page Bucy

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780195372076

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372076.001.0001

Facing the Electorate

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(p. 146 ) 4 Facing the Electorate
Source:
Image Bite Politics
Author(s):

Maria Elizabeth Grabe

Erik Page Bucy

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372076.003.0004

Given the tendency of candidates to appear in image bites more often than sound bites, the non-verbal behavior of presidential nominees takes on added significance. This chapter argues that facial displays are influential elements within image and sound bites, and examines the character of televised candidate displays shown on the evening news. To structure the analysis, it draws on the literature of biopolitics that has identified three classes of displays relevant to the study of televised political behavior.

Keywords:   image bites, presidential candidates, facial displays, non-verbal behavior, evening news, biopolitics

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