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- Title
Gazing into the Past: Post-Presidential Collective Memory and Political Scopophilia at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum.
- Authors
Wernecke, Christopher J.
- Abstract
If the American presidency is a catalyst for and exemplar of the power of rhetoric, so too is the presidential museum. Indeed, the confluence of material, textual, and visual rhetoric in these constructed places of memory continues to make these sites compelling and influential. Much like its counterparts across the country, The Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum seeks to captivate visitors with an array of immersive exhibits that appeal to the visitor's full sensorium. In this essay, I extend the concept of political scopophilia to better account for rhetoric's impact on the visitor's full sensorium in presidential museums. Through activating and enhancing the visitor's scopophiliac impulses, the Carter Museum creates an illusion of intimacy in its attempt to refocus American collective memory around Carter's post-presidential successes.
- Subjects
CARTER, Jimmy, 1924-; COLLECTIVE memory; VISUAL communication; MUSEUMS
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2021, Vol 85, Issue 4, p507
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570314.2021.1898673