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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khazaal, Natalie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International.
Tele Liban.
War and television.
Television broadcasting.
Television and politics.
Sex role on television.
Mass media and language.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Rôle selon le sexe à la television.
Medias et langage > Liban.
Television et politique > Liban.
Television > Liban.
Mass media and language > Lebanon.
Television and politics > Lebanon.
Television broadcasting > Lebanon.
Lebanon.
Lebanon > History > Civil War, 1975-1990 > Television and the war.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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