Media and Communication Catalogue 2022

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Media Studies: TV & Society

Carlos Uxó

Christine Crone

El género policial en Cuba

Pan-Arab News TV Station al-Mayadeen

Novela policial revolucionaria, neopolicial y teleseries

The New Regressive Leftist Media

Oxford, 2021. X, 252 p.

New York, 2020. XIV, 216 pp.

Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas. Tomo 84

Currents in Media, Social and Religious Movements in the Middle East. Vol. 1

en rústica • ISBN 978-1-78997-387-7 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.20 / € 55.60 / £ 45.– / US-$ 67.95

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Este libro argumenta que el apogeo del género policial en Cuba a partir de 1971 está ligado a la redefinición cultural y política que tuvo lugar en las primeras décadas de la Revolución. La proliferación de novelas policiales, sus masivas tiradas y su promoción por organismos oficiales no es un fenómeno meramente literario y editorial, y debe analizarse en relación con la política cultural del largo Quinquenio Gris. Este libro argumenta también que la decadencia de la novela policial revolucionaria, y el desarrollo del neopolicial en los noventa, son reflejo de cambios en el contexto sociopolítico cubano. La gradual apertura en los ochenta, la desaparición de la Unión Soviética y el inicio del Periodo Especial, hicieron del tono épico del policial revolucionario un producto trasnochado, posibilitando un policial que cuestionaba cuanto antes se consideraba irrefutable. Finalmente, este libro argumenta que el análisis del policial cubano debe incorporar las teleseries policiales. La Revolución instrumentalizó la television para la educación masiva en los principios revolucionarios, un proyecto educativo como parte del cual pronto comienzan a retransmitirse programas centrados en la nueva legalidad revolucionaria. Las teleseries policiales han desempeñado un papel paralelo al de la narrativa que se analiza aquí por primera vez.

This book is the first comprehensive research conducted on the pan-Arab TV station al-Mayadeen – an important representative of the post-2011 generation of Arab satellite news media. Likewise, it is an investigation of a growing political trend and ideological discourse in the Arab world, which the book identifies as The New Regressive Left. The book sheds light on overlooked parts of the Arab population, which neither identified with the vision of the young activists initiating the uprisings, nor with the ambition of the growing Islamist tendency that followed. Rather it voices a grouping of Shia Muslims, religious minorities, parts of the Arab Left, secular cultural producers, and supports of the resistance movements brought together by their shared fear of the future. Drawing on a wide variety of programmes from the station’s first four years and on interviews with staff members, the book captures how a TV station can play a role in the production of ideology through e.g. its composition of programmes, collaborations, events, iconization of cultural figures, choice of aesthetics, as well as through its recycling of cultural heritage and already existing ideological concepts. Overall, four ideological core concepts emerges, namely: the support of the resistance, the rejection of Sunni Islamism, the acceptance of authoritarianism, and the challenging of neoliberalism. Taking seriously a media outlet such as al-Mayadeen and the worldview driving an ideological discourse such as The New Regressive Left seems more acute than ever if we want to grasp the developments in a post-2011 Arab world.


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