Political Cartoons in the 1988 Presidential Campaign: Image, Metaphor, and Narrative (Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture)

The author discusses the ways in which political cartoonists use narrative to express their messages and to frame the political realities of their time. She maintains that the narratives that cartoonists constructed for the 1988 US Presidential campaign tended to focus on the candidates' personalities rather than on the issues they addressed. The cartoonists sustained the perception that Ronald Reagan had an impact on the political scene, and those who aspired to succeed him were visually diminished in the cartoons. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


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