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Reality television and Arab politics : contention in public life /
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, fueling heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Communication, society, and politics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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, fueling 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 252 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-244) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511675294 0511675291 0511672047 9780511672040 9780511814259 0511814259 0511739052 9780511739057 1107209374 9781107209374 1282486675 9781282486676 9786612486678 6612486678 0511674104 9780511674105 0511670761 9780511670763 0511673310 9780511673313 |