Dramas of Nationhood The Politics of Television in Egypt

Name: Dramas of Nationhood The Politics of Television in Egypt
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ISBN: 9780226001975

ISBN-10: 0226001970

ISBN-13: 9780226001975

Edition: 2004

Authors: Lila Abu-Lughod, Anthony T. Carter

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How do people come to think of themselves as part of a nation? Dramas of Nationhood identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egyptian nation—television serials. These melodramatic programs—like soap operas but more closely tied to political and social issues than their Western counterparts—have been shown on television in Egypt for more than thirty years. In this book, Lila Abu-Lughod examines the shifting politics of these serials and the way their contents both reflect and seek to direct the changing course of Islam, gender relations, and everyday life in this Middle Eastern nation.Representing a decade's worth of research, Dramas of Nationhood makes a case for the…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Ahmad H. Sa'di is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published widely on political, social, and economic aspects of the lives of Palestinians in Israel.Lila Abu-Lughod is professor of anthropology and gender studies at Columbia University. Her books include Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories, and Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt.



Foreword


Acknowledgments



Anthropology and National Media



Ethnography of a Nation



Interpreting Culture(s) after Television: On Method



National Pedagogy



Rural "Ignorance" and the Virtues of Education



Development Realism, "Real Melodrama," and the Problem of Feminism



The Eroding Hegemony of Developmentalism



Modern Subjects? Egyptian Melodrama and Postcolonial Difference



The Ambivalence of Authenticity: National Culture in a Global World



Managing Religion in the Name of National Community



Consumption and the Eroding Hegemony of Developmentalism


Conclusion: Star Magic and the Forms of National Affinity


Appendix


Notes


References


Index