Dan Schill is an assistant professor in Corporate Communication and Public Affairs at Southern Methodist University.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Mass-Mediated Politics and Constructed CandidatesChapter 3 Media EventsChapter 4 AdvanceChapter 5 The Rhetorical Impact of Media EventsChapter 6 Implications for Communicating by Media Event

While grounded in theories of political communication, this insightful book provides a very useful "insiders" look at the practice of staging and scripting political events. For those students and scholars of political communication with little practical experience in the craft of doing politics, Stagecraft and Statecraft is a must read.

Dan Schill is an assistant professor in Corporate Communication and Public Affairs at Southern Methodist University.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Mass-Mediated Politics and Constructed CandidatesChapter 3 Media EventsChapter 4 AdvanceChapter 5 The Rhetorical Impact of Media EventsChapter 6 Implications for Communicating by Media Event

While grounded in theories of political communication, this insightful book provides a very useful "insiders" look at the practice of staging and scripting political events. For those students and scholars of political communication with little practical experience in the craft of doing politics, Stagecraft and Statecraft is a must read.

Dan Schill is an assistant professor in Corporate Communication and Public Affairs at Southern Methodist University.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Mass-Mediated Politics and Constructed CandidatesChapter 3 Media EventsChapter 4 AdvanceChapter 5 The Rhetorical Impact of Media EventsChapter 6 Implications for Communicating by Media Event

While grounded in theories of political communication, this insightful book provides a very useful "insiders" look at the practice of staging and scripting political events. For those students and scholars of political communication with little practical experience in the craft of doing politics, Stagecraft and Statecraft is a must read.