Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life (Communication, Society and Politics)
ISBN-13:
9780521769198
ISBN-10:
0521769191
Edition:
1
Author:
Marwan M. Kraidy
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
270 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780521769198
ISBN-10:
0521769191
Edition:
1
Author:
Marwan M. Kraidy
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
270 pages
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Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life (Communication, Society and Politics) (ISBN-13: 9780521769198 and ISBN-10: 0521769191), written by authors
Marwan M. Kraidy, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009.
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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, 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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