{"title":"The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power","authors":"Stephen R. Buzdugan","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2022.2088670","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"As the political science scholar Roland Bleiker has recently put it, ‘we live in a visual age . . . [the] omnipresence of images is political and has changed fundamentally how we live and interact in today’s world’. The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power arrives at a time when visual images dominate the political landscape, especially through social media. As Luciano Cheles and Pierre Sorlin put it in their thought-provoking opening chapter:","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"362 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Italian Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2022.2088670","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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As the political science scholar Roland Bleiker has recently put it, ‘we live in a visual age . . . [the] omnipresence of images is political and has changed fundamentally how we live and interact in today’s world’. The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power arrives at a time when visual images dominate the political landscape, especially through social media. As Luciano Cheles and Pierre Sorlin put it in their thought-provoking opening chapter:
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Italian Studies has a national and international reputation for academic and scholarly excellence, publishing original articles (in Italian or English) on a wide range of Italian cultural concerns from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era. The journal warmly welcomes submissions covering a range of disciplines and inter-disciplinary subjects from scholarly and critical work on Italy"s literary culture and linguistics to Italian history and politics, film and art history, and gender and cultural studies. It publishes two issues per year, normally including one special themed issue and occasional interviews with leading scholars.The reviews section in the journal includes articles and short reviews on a broad spectrum of recent works of scholarship.