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Pretty Liar : Television, Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon /

"Pretty Liar" explores the rise of language and gender politics on Lebanese television to tell the untold story of the co-evolution of Lebanese television and its audiences and how the civil war of 1975-1991 affected that co-evolution. The shift in public interest in television has been wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Khazaal, Natalie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2018.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • History of Lebanese television and the television-audience relationship
  • The war triangle : from disengagement to engagement on the news
  • Tele liban : the peace bubble and the crisis of legitimacy
  • Audiences : sarcasm, the new hero of television, and the components of modern legitimacy
  • LBC : an illegitimate militia seeks legitimacy in participating audiences and accommodating media
  • Language politics and gender politics on entertainment television
  • Tele liban in defense of fusha
  • LBC and language pessoptimism
  • War, modernity, and the crisis of patriarchy
  • Conclusion : the case for the study of Lebanese broadcast television.