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245			_aThe visual politics and policy of Donald Trump/ _cDermot Hodson.
260			_c2021
520			_aThis article analyses images of the 45th president produced by official photographers, photojournalists, political activists and foreign governments between 1985 and 2021. W.J.T. Mitchell's concept of the pictorial turn, it argues, helps us to understand the importance of such images for Trump's post-truth politics, but also anxiety about their influence. This article finds that attempts to deride, deface or destroy Trump's charismatic, strong-man persona were never likely to succeed because, as Mitchell predicts, they reduced the president's supporters to idolaters in thrall to the power of images. Images played a more productive role, this article finds, by debunking the president's political falsehoods in ways that textual corrections struggled to do and by documenting his administration's disruptive approach to policy-making in areas such as foreign affairs and immigration policy. Such images did not tell the whole truth, but they were no less successful at confronting Trump's post-truth politics as a result.
650			_aDONALD TRUMP _xPOST-TRUTH POLITICS _xIMAGE SCIENCE _xIDOLATRY _xICONOCLASM
773			_aPolicy Studies : _gVol 42, Nos. 5-6, September-November 2021, pp.509-527
598			_aUSA
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01442872.2021.1926445 _zClick here for full text
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