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Moroccan Noir : Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture /

Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new era. The author examines popular culture and mas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smolin, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : state, mass media, and the new Moroccan authoritarianism
  • Police on trial : the Tabit Affair, newspaper sensationalism, and the end of the Years of Lead
  • "He butchered his wife because of witchcraft and adultery" : crime tabloids, moral panic and the remaking of the Moroccan cop
  • Crime-page fiction : Moroccan true crime and the new independent press
  • Prime-time cops : blurring police fact and fiction on Moroccan television
  • The Moroccan "serial killer" and CSI : Casablanca
  • From Morocco's 9/11 to community policing : state advertising and the new citizen
  • Epilogue : "the police are at the service of the people."