Mediators of Public Resonance: Cinematic Reflections on the Role of Iconic Figures of the ‘Everybody’ in Populist Political Processes by Anna Schober

“…In analysing two sample films – one ('Meet John Doe', Frank Capra 1941) released in the United States in the early 1940s and the other ('Chez Nous',Lucas Belvaux 2016) made in Europe in the 2010s – it shows in detail how populist leaders embody the role of a central iconic figure, the ‘everybody’, in addressing the audience as ‘people’ in opposition to an ‘elite’. …”
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