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The Living Room Candidate: Political Advertising in the 2020 Presidential Campaign

The 2020 election may be unconventional, but both parties are using a communication tool with deep roots in American campaigns: political advertisements. This panel will bring experts in media, politics, and history to discuss the role advertising is playing in the race for the White House in 2020. This discussion, moderated by Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Associate Professor of History at Purdue University, will explore advertisements from the past and present to help the audience better understand the dynamics of the media landscape and political strategies at work today.

Guests include Nadia E. Brown, University Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Purdue University; Leo Chavez, Professor at Stanford University and authors of several books about immigration narratives in the media; Nicole Hemmer, associate research scholar with the Obama Presidency Oral History project, and the author of Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics; and David Schwartz, Manager of Theatrical Programming, Netflix, and former Chief Curator, MoMI, who is the founding curator of MoMI’s online exhibition The Living Room Candidate.

While this event is free, we hope you will consider supporting the Museum with an additional donation. MoMI’s staff is working hard to fulfill its mission via remote programming. This comes with opportunities to experiment but also profound challenges. Your support is critical to ensure our work remains vital and visible to a broad public.











When: Thu., Oct. 15, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Where: Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Ave.
718-777-6888
Price: Suggested donation $10.
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The 2020 election may be unconventional, but both parties are using a communication tool with deep roots in American campaigns: political advertisements. This panel will bring experts in media, politics, and history to discuss the role advertising is playing in the race for the White House in 2020. This discussion, moderated by Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Associate Professor of History at Purdue University, will explore advertisements from the past and present to help the audience better understand the dynamics of the media landscape and political strategies at work today.

Guests include Nadia E. Brown, University Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Purdue University; Leo Chavez, Professor at Stanford University and authors of several books about immigration narratives in the media; Nicole Hemmer, associate research scholar with the Obama Presidency Oral History project, and the author of Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics; and David Schwartz, Manager of Theatrical Programming, Netflix, and former Chief Curator, MoMI, who is the founding curator of MoMI’s online exhibition The Living Room Candidate.

While this event is free, we hope you will consider supporting the Museum with an additional donation. MoMI’s staff is working hard to fulfill its mission via remote programming. This comes with opportunities to experiment but also profound challenges. Your support is critical to ensure our work remains vital and visible to a broad public.

Buy tickets/get more info now