Moroccan Noir Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture

Name: Moroccan Noir Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture
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ISBN: 9780253010650

ISBN-10: 0253010659

ISBN-13: 9780253010650

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jonathan Smolin

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Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new 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. Jonathan Smolin examines popular culture and mass media to understand the changing nature of authoritarianism in Morocco over the past two decades. Using neglected Arabic sources including crime tabloids, television movies, true-crime journalism, and police advertising, Smolin sheds new light on politics and popular culture in the Middle East and North Africa.

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/23/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Style


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"


Notes


Bibliography


Index