Submitted by sseigel on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 15:06
This lecture draws on some of Dr. Kraidy's books and research projects:
- "Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life" (2009, Cambridge University Press), which explores the elaboration of locally resonant forms of modernity through the contentious politics of reality television. Based on five years of fieldwork and a wealth of primary sources from half a dozen countries, Kraidy argues that the pan-Arab reality television polemics are best understood as a laboratory in which various versions of what it means to be modern are elaborated, contested, and appropriated.
- "Arab Television Industries" (2009, British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, with Joe Khalil) draws on a variety of primary and secondary sources to explore the structural transformation of Arab television from distinct national systems to a regionally integrated satellite industry, and to examine related cultural and political changes.
- The research project "The Contentious Politics of Arab Music Videos focuses on the pan-Arab music video industry": Through an examination of the production, aesthetics and politics of sub-genres (commercial, patriotic, Islamic), this project seeks to understand the music video form as a crossroads of commerce, nationalism and Islamism.
Dr. Marwan Kraidy is Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
- "Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life" (2009, Cambridge University Press), which explores the elaboration of locally resonant forms of modernity through the contentious politics of reality television. Based on five years of fieldwork and a wealth of primary sources from half a dozen countries, Kraidy argues that the pan-Arab reality television polemics are best understood as a laboratory in which various versions of what it means to be modern are elaborated, contested, and appropriated.
- "Arab Television Industries" (2009, British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, with Joe Khalil) draws on a variety of primary and secondary sources to explore the structural transformation of Arab television from distinct national systems to a regionally integrated satellite industry, and to examine related cultural and political changes.
- The research project "The Contentious Politics of Arab Music Videos focuses on the pan-Arab music video industry": Through an examination of the production, aesthetics and politics of sub-genres (commercial, patriotic, Islamic), this project seeks to understand the music video form as a crossroads of commerce, nationalism and Islamism.
Dr. Marwan Kraidy is Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Start Time:
Thu, 03/04/2010 - 14:00 - Sat, 04/10/2010 - 14:00