Arab Television Industries

Author : Joe F. Khalil,Marwan M. Kraidy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844575763

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Arab Television Industries by Joe F. Khalil,Marwan M. Kraidy Pdf

In recent years, Arab television has undergone a dramatic and profound transformation from terrestrial, government-owned, national channels to satellite, privately owned, transnational networks. The latter is the Arab television that matters today, economically, socially and politically. The resulting pan-Arab industry is vibrant, diverse, and fluid - very different, the authors of this major new study argue, from the prevailing view in the West, which focuses only on the al-Jazeera network. Based on a wealth of primary Arabic language sources, interviews with Arab television executives, and the authors' personal and professional experience with the industry, Arab Television Industries tells the story of that transformation, featuring compelling portraits of major players and institutions, and captures dominant trends in the industry. Readers learn how the transformation of Arab television came to be, the different kinds of channels, how programs are made and promoted, and how they are regulated. Throughout, the analysis focuses on the interaction of the television industry with Arab politics, business, societies and cultures.

Author : Noha Mellor,Khalil Rinnawi,Nabil Dajani,Muhammad I. Ayish
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745637365

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Arab Media by Noha Mellor,Khalil Rinnawi,Nabil Dajani,Muhammad I. Ayish Pdf

This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the emerging Arab media industries in the context of globalization and its impacts, with a focus on publishing, press, broadcasting, cinema and new media. Through detailed discussions of the regulation and economics of these industries, the authors argue that the political, technological and cultural changes on the global media scene have resulted in the reorganization of the Arab media field. They provide striking examples of this through the particular effects on media policies, media technology and the content and genres developed for the new generation of media consumers. As part of the book's overview of the contemporary characteristics of Arab media, the authors outline the development of the role of modern Arab media from a tool of mobilizing the public to a tool of commercial and symbolic profit. Overall, the volume illustrates how the Arab region represents a unique case where the commercialization and liberalization of selected media industries has gone hand in hand with continuous state intervention and an increasing self censorship. Written for students without prior knowledge of the topic, Arab Media will be essential reading for all interested in the contemporary global media industries.

Author : Naomi Sakr,Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen,Donatella Della Ratta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857710468

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Arab Media Moguls by Naomi Sakr,Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen,Donatella Della Ratta Pdf

Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element in regional dynamics of political change. Where do private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarisation, and reforming business practices in the Arab world? Arab Media Moguls charts the fortunes of some leading media investors and entrepreneurs from Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia to examine their motives, management styles, financial performance and links to political power. The resulting profiles offer intriguing insights into the place of family, education, religion and media regulation in regional power structures. Globally, the rise of small digital media, increased competition law and the precedence of more digitally-savvy younger generations have fuelled doubts as to whether the archetypal 'media mogul' is a phenomenon with a future. How do such factors affect power plays in Arab media? Responding critically to existing Western scholarship and commentary on magnates in US and European media, this book explores how far existing assumptions and perceptions about powerful media owners' eccentricity, innovation and risk-taking apply in the Arab context and offers a range of alternative approaches to understanding the central position of certain individuals in the fast-changing Arab media business.

Author : Naomi Sakr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857710482

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Arab Television Today by Naomi Sakr Pdf

There is a great deal at stake for everyone in the future of Arab television. Political and social upheavals in this central but unsettled region are increasingly played out on television screens and in the tussles over programming that take place behind them. "Al-Jazeera" is of course only one player among a still-growing throng of satellite channels, which now include private terrestrial stations in some Arab states. It is an industry urgently needing to be made sense of; this book does exactly this in a very readable and authoritative way, through exploring and explaining the evolving structures and content choices in both entertainment and news of contemporary Arab television. It shows how owners, investors, journalists, presenters, production companies, advertisers, regulators and media freedom advocates influence each other in a geolinguistic marketplace that encompasses the Arab region itself and communities abroad. Probing internal and external interventions in the Arab television landscape, the book offers a timely and compelling sequel to Naomi Sakr's "Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East", which won the Middle Eastern Studies Book Prize in 2003.

Author : Naomi Sakr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Arabs on television
ISBN : 0755610075

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Arab Television Today by Naomi Sakr Pdf

"There is a great deal at stake for everyone in the future of Arab television. Political and social upheavals in this central but unsettled region are increasingly played out on television screens and in the tussles over programming that take place behind them. "Al-Jazeera" is of course only one player among a still-growing throng of satellite channels, which now include private terrestrial stations in some Arab states. It is an industry urgently needing to be made sense of; this book does exactly this in a very readable and authoritative way, through exploring and explaining the evolving structures and content choices in both entertainment and news of contemporary Arab television. It shows how owners, investors, journalists, presenters, production companies, advertisers, regulators and media freedom advocates influence each other in a geolinguistic marketplace that encompasses the Arab region itself and communities abroad. Probing internal and external interventions in the Arab television landscape, the book offers a timely and compelling sequel to Naomi Sakr's "Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East", which won the Middle Eastern Studies Book Prize in 2003."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Michael Curtin,Jane Shattuc
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844575756

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The American Television Industry by Michael Curtin,Jane Shattuc Pdf

The American Television Industry offers a concise and accessible introduction to TV production, programming, advertising, and distribution in the United States. The authors outline how programs are made and marketed, and furthermore provide an insightful overview of key players, practices, and future trends.

Author : Janet Wasko
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781405198776

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A Companion to Television by Janet Wasko Pdf

A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television’s current incarnation, and predict its likely future Covers technology and aesthetics, television’s relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects Essays are by an international group of first-rate scholars For information, news, and content from Blackwell's reference publishing program please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/reference/

Author : Anastasia Valassopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317981053

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Arab Cultural Studies by Anastasia Valassopoulos Pdf

This book seeks to both showcase and further develop innovative research and debates on contemporary Arab cultural production. Popular culture in the form of cinema, popular music, literature, visual media and cyber-cultures, both local and imported, enjoy a central role in Arab cultural life, and the contributors to this innovative collection showcase the tremendous cultural output emerging from the Arab world. They present sensitive, conceptual readings whilst remaining mindful of the place of this work within a wider framework that seeks to prevent isolationist readings of cultural phenomena. Making sense of the place of culture in the Arab world, and agreeing upon a broadly recognisable and commonly accepted set of terms within which to discuss this output, is a new and urgent challenge. Arab Cultural Studies aspires to understand, communicate and theorise these forms. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.

Author : Marwan M. Kraidy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521769198

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Reality Television and Arab Politics by Marwan M. Kraidy Pdf

This book analyzes how reality television fuelled heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political participation in the Middle East.

Author : Muḥammad ʻIṣām ʻĀyish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Arabs on television
ISBN : UOM:39015060080549

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Arab World Television in the Age of Globalisation by Muḥammad ʻIṣām ʻĀyish Pdf

Author : Cynthia Chris,David A. Gerstner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136485718

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Media Authorship by Cynthia Chris,David A. Gerstner Pdf

Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture industry of new media. Defining media broadly, across a range of creative artifacts and production cultures—from visual arts to videogames, from textiles to television—contributors consider authoring practices of artists, designers, do-it-yourselfers, media professionals, scholars, and others. Specifically, they ask: What constitutes "media" and "authorship" in a technologically converged, globally conglomerated, multiplatform environment for the production and distribution of content? What can we learn from cinematic and literary models of authorship—and critiques of those models—with regard to authorship not only in television and recorded music, but also interactive media such as videogames and the Internet? How do we conceive of authorship through practices in which users generate content collaboratively or via appropriation? What institutional prerogatives and legal debates around intellectual property rights, fair use, and copyright bear on concepts of authorship in "new media"? By addressing these issues, Media Authorship demonstrates that the concept of authorship as formulated in literary and film studies is reinvigorated, contested, remade—even, reauthored—by new practices in the digital media environment.

Author : Naomi Sakr,Jeanette Steemers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786720931

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Children's TV and Digital Media in the Arab World by Naomi Sakr,Jeanette Steemers Pdf

Who analyses children's screen content and media use in Arab countries, and with what results? Children, defined internationally as under-18s, account for some 40 per cent of Arab populations and the proportion of under-fives is correspondingly large. Yet studies of children's media and child audiences in the region are as scarce as truly popular locally produced media content aimed at children. At the very time when conflict and uncertainty in key Arab countries have made local development and diversification of children's media more remote, it has become more urgent to gain a better understanding of how the next generation's identities and worldviews are formed. This interdisciplinary book is the first in English to probe both the state of Arab screen media for children and the practices of Arabic-speaking children in producing, as well as consuming, screen content. It responds to the gap in research by bringing together a holistic investigation of institutions and leading players, children's media experiences and some iconic media texts.With children's media increasingly linked to merchandising, which favours US-based global players and globalizing forces, this volume provides a timely insight into tensions between differing concepts of childhood and desirable media messages.

Author : Philippe Bouquillion,Christine Ithurbide,Tristan Mattelart
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003814610

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Digital Platforms and the Global South by Philippe Bouquillion,Christine Ithurbide,Tristan Mattelart Pdf

This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers – including political economists, socio-economists, geographers, media sociologists or anthropologists – who each explore these issues through an insightful case study at a local, national, regional or international scale. While studying the strategies of some of the main US-based Big Tech platforms or video streaming platforms towards the Global South, the chapters also consider the often-neglected active role local or regional actors play in the expansion of those Western digital players, and highlight the existence of a constellation of local or regional platforms that have emerged in Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Middle East. In addition to analysing the complex relationships of competition, collaboration or dependence between these diverse actors, this volume examines the ways in which the rise of these digital platforms has generated new forms of cultural entrepreneurship and participated in the reconfiguring of the conditions in which cultural contents are produced and circulated in the Global South. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the transnationalisation of cultural industries or in the social, political, economic, cultural and geopolitical dimensions of digital transformations and will be an important resource for students, teachers and researchers in media, communication, cultural studies, international relations and area studies programmes.

Author : Shawn Shimpach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351755153

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The Routledge Companion to Global Television by Shawn Shimpach Pdf

Featuring scholarly perspectives from around the globe and drawing on a legacy of television studies, but with an eye toward the future, this authoritative collection examines both the thoroughly global nature of television and the multiple and varied experiences that constitute television in the twenty-first century. Companion chapters include original essays by some of the leading scholars of television studies as well as emerging voices engaging television on six continents, offering readers a truly global range of perspectives. The volume features multidisciplinary analyses that offer models and guides for the study of global television, with approaches focused on the theories, audiences, content, culture, and institutions of television. A wide array of examples and case studies engage the transforming practices, technologies, systems, and texts constituing television around the world today, providing readers with a contemporary and multi-faceted perspective. In this volume, editor Shawn Shimpach has brought together an essential guide to understanding television in the world today, how it works and what it means – perfect for students, scholars, and anyone else interested in television, global media studies, and beyond.

Author : Tamara L. Falicov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781911239383

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Latin American Film Industries by Tamara L. Falicov Pdf

Film production in Latin America is as old as cinema itself, but local film industries have always been in a triangulated relationship with Hollywood and European cinema. This book situates Latin American film industries within the global circulation of film production, exhibition and distribution, charting the changes that the industries have undergone from the sound era to the present day. Focusing in particular on Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, Tamara Falicov examines commonalities among Latin American film industries, such as the challenges of procuring funding, competition from Hollywood, state funding battles, and the fickle nature of audiences, as well as censorship issues, competition from television, and the transnational nature of Latin American film. She addresses production, exhibition, and distribution contexts and financing and co-production with Europe and the United States, as well as the role of film festivals in funding and circulating films both within and outside of Latin America. Newer trends such as the revival of protectionist measures like the screen quota are framed in contrast to the U.S.'s push for trade policy liberalization and issues of universal concern such as film piracy, and new technologies and the role of television in helping and hindering Latin American cinema.