Reality Television and Arab Politics

Contention in Public Life

AvMarwan M. Kraidy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

Del i serien Communication, Society and Politics

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What does it mean to be modern outside the West? Based on a wealth of primary data collected over five years, Reality Television and Arab Politics analyzes how reality television stirred an explosive mix of religion, politics, and sexuality, fuelling heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political participation in the Arab world. The controversies, Kraidy argues, are best understood as a social laboratory in which actors experiment with various forms of modernity, continuing a long-standing Arab preoccupation with specifying terms of engagement with Western modernity. Women and youth take center stage in this process. Against the backdrop of dramatic upheaval in the Middle East, this book challenges the notion of a monolithic 'Arab Street' and offers an original perspective on Arab media, shifting attention away from a narrow focus on al-Jazeera, toward a vibrant media sphere that compels broad popular engagement and contentious political performance.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-10-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:570 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Communication, Society and Politics
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521769198

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Marwan M. Kraidy is Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Director of the Arab Media and Public Life (AMPLE) project, Kraidy has authored Hybridity, or, The Cultural Logic of Globalization (2005) and co-edited Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives (2003). He has written widely and contributed frequently to media discussions of Arab media and global communication, mostly on National Public Radio.

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'Kraidy demolishes the notion that Arab television is all about news programs, and everything else is 'mere entertainment'. Reality Television and Arab Politics leaves no doubt that entertainment must be taken seriously. This book is indispensable for the study and teaching of Arab media.' Walter Armbrust, St. Anthony's College, Oxford University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: beyond al-Jazeera; 1. Screens of contention: the battle for Arab viewers; 2. Voting Islam off the island? Big Brother in Bahrain; 3. The Saudi-Lebanese connection; 4. Contesting reality: Star Academy and Islamic authenticity in Saudi Arabia; 5. Gendering reality: Kuwait in the eye of the storm; 6. A battle of nations: Superstar and the Syrian-Lebanese media war; 7. The 'new Middle East'? Reality television and the 'independence intifada'; Conclusion: performing politics, taming modernity; Appendix.