Arab Television Today
Publisher: I. B. Tauris; I.B. Tauris
Published: December 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781845115647
Subjects: Radio & television industry; Social Situations And Conditions; Television Plays And Programs; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Performing Arts/Dance; Arabian peninsula; Television - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism; Government - General; Sociology - General
Description: "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.