Pretty liar : television, language, and gender in wartime Lebanon
Record details
- ISBN: 9780815635956
- ISBN: 0815654510
- ISBN: 9780815654513
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages)
remote - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | History of Lebanese television and the television-audience relationship -- The war triangle : from disengagement to engagement on the news -- Télé liban : the peace bubble and the crisis of legitimacy -- Audiences : sarcasm, the new hero of television, and the components of modern legitimacy -- LBC : an illegitimate militia seeks legitimacy in participating audiences and accommodating media -- Language politics and gender politics on entertainment television -- Télé liban in defense of fusha -- LBC and language pessoptimism -- War, modernity, and the crisis of patriarchy -- Conclusion : the case for the study of Lebanese broadcast television. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 29, 2018). |
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Genre: | Electronic books. History. |