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Trooping the Colors on TV

Trooping the Colors on TV public c lu e ut r VoL 3, No.2: Spring 1991 Public Culture numinous flag is articulated most dramatically in official ritual (the kind we will see more of as body counts rise), a subliminal version is featured in the world according to television as a constant unremarked backdrop for embodied authority, a parenthetical but endlessly repeated image of American political leadership. Its totem wings folded and at rest, this subliminal flag appears next to the @um whenever the President speaks to the people, and on other demonstrably official occasions. Significantly continuous wt ih the peacetime flag, the subliminal flag provides a detached counterpoint to the drama of official flag ceremonies concerned with sacrifice and death. Though the subliminal flag appears in the same visual field as the President and his men, they are never seen to touch or hold it. Never do they supplicate, embrace, modify, or embellish it. Living within the magic Circle of its protection, they have no need to drain its contagious sacred power, or to strive to eam its blessing. For common soldiers and those who love them, the flag wears a different aspect that television has faithfully captured This is a shamanistic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Public Culture Duke University Press

Trooping the Colors on TV

Marvin, Carolyn
Public Culture , Volume 3 (2) – Apr 1, 1991
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press
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0899-2363
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10.1215/08992363-3-2-155
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public c lu e ut r VoL 3, No.2: Spring 1991 Public Culture numinous flag is articulated most dramatically in official ritual (the kind we will see more of as body counts rise), a subliminal version is featured in the world according to television as a constant unremarked backdrop for embodied authority, a parenthetical but endlessly repeated image of American political leadership. Its totem wings folded and at rest, this subliminal flag appears next to the @um whenever the President speaks to the people, and on other demonstrably official occasions. Significantly continuous wt ih the peacetime flag, the subliminal flag provides a detached counterpoint to the drama of official flag ceremonies concerned with sacrifice and death. Though the subliminal flag appears in the same visual field as the President and his men, they are never seen to touch or hold it. Never do they supplicate, embrace, modify, or embellish it. Living within the magic Circle of its protection, they have no need to drain its contagious sacred power, or to strive to eam its blessing. For common soldiers and those who love them, the flag wears a different aspect that television has faithfully captured This is a shamanistic

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Published: Apr 1, 1991

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