The making of exile cultures : Iranian television in Los Angeles / Hamid Naficy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naficy, Hamid.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic television broadcasting--California--Los Angeles.

Ethnic television broadcasting.

Iranians--California--Los Angeles--Social life and customs.

Iranians.

Iranians--California--Los Angeles.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 283 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Naficy explores the seemingly contradictory way in which immigrant media and cultural productions serve as the source both of resistance and opposition to the domination by host and home country's social values while simultaneously serving as vehicles for personal and cultural transformation and assimilation of those values.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Exile Discourse; 2. Iranian Exilic Popular Culture; 3. Structure and Political Economy of Exilic Television; 4. The Exilic Television Genre and Its Textual Politics and Signifying Practices; 5. Fetishization, Nostalgic Longing, and the Exilic National Imaginary; 6. The Cultural Politics of Hybridity; Table 1. Periodicals published in Los Angeles, 1980-92; Table 2. Regularly scheduled radio programs aired in Los Angeles, 1980-92; Table 3. Organizations sponsoring ""newscasts"" by telephone in Los Angeles

Table 4. Feature fiction films made by Iranians in exile; Table 5. Types of Iranian associations and examples; Table 6. Societies and functions they have sponsored at UCLA, 1980-90; Table 7. Program profile, regularly scheduled Iranian TV programs in Los Angeles, 1981-92; Table 8. Broadcast schedule and program types: Iranian programs in Los Angeles, KSCI Channel 18 and cable TV channels, May 1992; Table 9. Iranian TV programs currently in tape syndication, May 1992; Table 10. Estimated program revenues from advertisements

Table 11. KSCI-TV's airtime rate schedule (effective 1992): Cost in dollars per hour/half hour; Table 12. Estimated cost of renting airtime for current Iranian programs; Table 13. Producers' profile: Iranian TV programs in Los Angeles, 1981-82; Table 14. Frequency of viewing of Iranian internal religio-ethnic TV audiences (in %); Table 15. Viewing patterns of Iranian religio-ethnic audiences for videos by language (in %); Table 16. Iranian Armenian audience by age, education, and income; Table 17. Iranian Baha'i audience by age, education, and income

Table 18. Iranian Jewish audience by age, education, and income; Table 19. Iranian Muslim audience by age, education, and income; Table 20. Iranian internal ethnic audiences for Persian language video and television (by age); Table 21. KSCI-TV's ""ethnic schedule"" of programs (by language), 3/17/1992; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8438-3

OCLC:

226376775