Mediating the Uprising : Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama / Rebecca Joubin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joubin, Rebecca, Author.

Contributor:

Berta, Péter, Contributor.

Series:

Politics of Marriage and Gender, Global

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage on television.

Masculinity on television.

Sex on television.

Sex role on television.

Television programs--Social aspects--Syria.

Television programs.

Women on television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.) : 18 b&w images

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform post-uprising Syrian drama for various forms of cultural and political critique. These narratives have become complicated since the uprising due to the Syrian regime’s effort to control the revolutionary discourse. As Syria’s uprising spawned more terrorist groups, some drama creators became nostalgic for pre-war days. While for some screenwriters a return to pre-2011 life would be welcome after so much bloodshed, others advocated profound cultural and social transformation, instead. They employed marriage and gender metaphors in the stories they wrote to engage in political critique, even at the risk of creating marketing difficulties for the shows or they created escapist stories such as transnational adaptations and Old Damascus tales. Serving as heritage preservation, Mediating the Uprising underscores that television drama creators in Syria have many ways of engaging in protest, with gender and marriage at the heart of the polemic.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

SERIES FOREWORD

ABBREVIATIONS

NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION

CHRONOLOGY OF THE SYRIAN UPRISING

Introduction. New Directions in Television Drama amid an Uprising

1. Mediating the Uprising

2. Sociopolitical Satire in the Multiyear Syrian Sketch Series Buq‘at Daw’ (Spotlight)

3. The Rise and Fall of the Qabaday (Tough Man)

4. The Politics of Love and Desire in Post-Uprising Syrian and Transnational Arab Television Drama

5. The Politics of Queer Representations in Syrian Television Drama Past and Present

Conclusion

APPENDIX. A Miniseries for Ramadan, 2011–2018

APPENDIX B. Percentages of Miniseries, 2011–2018

APPENDIX C. Miniseries for Ramadan, 2019

APPENDIX D. Percentages of Miniseries, 2019

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

FILMOGRAPHY

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9781978802704

OCLC:

1151009132