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The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media

Producing Shared Memory and National Identity in the Global Television Era

By: Tamar Ashuri

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media

Producing Shared Memory and National Identity in the Global Television Era

By: Tamar Ashuri

The television industry has metamorphosised from a national and largely-monopolized sector to a commercial and global enterprise. This has profoundly altered the way 'historical truth' and shared memory are constructed and conveyed. Here Ashuri provides a groundbreaking study of the changes through the vantage point of an illuminating mode of television production, international co-productions. By taking an example based on current events in the Middle East - a television documentary on the Arab Israeli conflict co-produced by three television networks (BBC, PBS, MBC) - her study enriches contemporary media research, providing an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look at the entire production process of a co-produced television history.She shows that making the documentary on the Arab-Israeli struggle turned into a war: a war over competing memories, interpretation, editing, and finally narration. Ashuri's analysis of transnational documentary collaborations reveals inherent tensions between economic constraints and cultural forces, between the local and global, and between 'shared' and 'cosmopolitan' memory. Enriching political economy studies of media by exploring the cultural negotiations at the heart of television production process, and highlighting the economic processes that underlie the contested constructions of national histories, "The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media" will be essential reading for those interested in media and television studies, as well as globalization and cultural identity.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857730665

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9780857730664

Dialogic Moments

From Soul Talks to Talk Radio in Israeli Culture

By: Tamar Katriel

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Dialogic Moments

From Soul Talks to Talk Radio in Israeli Culture

By: Tamar Katriel

An original ethnographic study about communication and culture in Palestine and Israel during the Twentieth Century, examining three modes of communication--soul talks, straight talk, and talk radio. The vision of communication as authentic dialogue, as the mutual communion of souls, has animated a great many twentieth century discussions of language and communication, both in scholarly writings and in various forms and contexts of popular culture. In its various manifestations, this communicative utopia has identified dialogue or conversation as a locus of authenticity of both individuals and groups. This study traces the ways in which this utopian vision of communication has played itself out in the particular context of Israeli society through the twentieth century, encapsulating central trends in the evolving Israeli cultural conversation over the years. In this sense, it is a historically-situated study of the cultural fluctuations of a given society in all its particularity. In another sense, however, it seeks to offer a more general statement about the culturally constructed nature of the quest for authenticity as a project of modernity by focusing on conceptions of communication and language as its quintessential loci." --From the Introduction by Tamar Katriel

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396

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Wayne State University Press

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0814327753

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9780814327753

Communal Webs

Communication and Culture in Contemporary Israel

By: Tamar Katriel

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Communal Webs

Communication and Culture in Contemporary Israel

By: Tamar Katriel

This book brings together insights derived from a detailed exploration of Israeli cultural patterns of communication, highlighting their role in the processes of culture formation, maintenance, and change. Katriel's ethnographic examples provide a richly-textured account of Israeli cultural experience, illustrating the potential of a cultural analysis grounded in the study of ideologically-informed communicative practices. The author addresses central issues in contemporary anthropology and human communication studies such as the identification of cultural communication patterns in ethnographic research, conceptualizations of the notions of culture and community, the rhetorical force of cultural communication forms, the role of ritualization in communication and social processes, the critical potential of ethnographic work, and the ethnographer's stance in studying one's own culture.

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State University of New York Press

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1438408471

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9781438408477

Transforming Media Coverage of Violent Conflicts

The New Face of War

By: Z. Kampf,T. Liebes

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Transforming Media Coverage of Violent Conflicts

The New Face of War

By: Z. Kampf,T. Liebes

What links the interviews with Saddam Hussein and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on British and American TV, the chase of journalists following mega-terrorists, and the new status conferred on ordinary people at war? Transforming Media Coverage of Violent Conflicts offers a timely and original discussion on the shift in war journalism in recent years.

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Springer

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1137313218

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Reporting the Arab-Israeli Conflict

How Hegemony Works

By: Tamar Liebes

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Reporting the Arab-Israeli Conflict

How Hegemony Works

By: Tamar Liebes

For journalists and reporters, the allegation of hegemonic practices constitute a most serious condemnation. It supposes that the media is working in the interest of the political establishment to create a false counsciousness. However, starting with Raymond Williams's refined definition of hegemony, the author shows how hegemony is an almost unwitting process which supports the status quo and the establishment. This text illustrates how this soft hegemony is manifest in the everyday workings of the media, and all the more so, when the media are on one side of a serious conflict. Considering the reporting of the Israel-Arab conflict and the 1991 Gulf War, Liebes demonstrates how national journalism supports the dominant ideology. This unintentional assimilation is the result of shared values, the inaccessibility of the other side, the preference for celebrating success rather than exposing failure, and a wish to be popular with the public. It shows how journalists abandon their watch-dog role, however, unintentionally, to support our side, especially in time of war.

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0415154650

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media

The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media

Dialogic Moments

Dialogic Moments

Communal Webs

Communal Webs

Transforming Media Coverage of Violent Conflicts

Transforming Media Coverage of Violent Conflicts

Reporting the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Reporting the Arab-Israeli Conflict

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