1. Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. List of Abbreviations 11
5. List of Figures 13
6. 1. Introduction 15
7. 2. Contemporary TV, Complexity, Power Struggles and the Cynical Turn 29
8. 3. Actors, Games, and Players 89
9. 4. Royal Performance and the Queen’s Three Bodies 143
10. 5. Overcoming Omnishambles 195
11. 6. The Curious Case of Volodymyr Zelensky and Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko 241
12. 7. Modelling Malfunction and Inverting the Populist Quest 287
13. 8. Starting “from some kind of scratch” 327
14. 9. Conclusion 369
15. List of Contemporary Polit-Series 395
16. Bibliography 401