Enemy number one or gay clown? The Russian president, masculinity and populism in US media.
This article I analyzes the recurring representations of Russia's president Putin in US liberal online news media and in political comedy 2013–2019. Using critical image and discourse analysis, it argues that the depictions of Putin focus on his masculinity, thereby rendering the Russian president as backwards, undemocratic, and as a threat to the US that, in turn, appears as a united, modern and progressive nation.