ISBN:
9781498593748
Language:
English
Pages:
xii,195 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Tabellen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Alahmed, Anas Struggle of entertainment and neoliberal postcolonial capitalist politics in "new" Saudi Arabia
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Alahmed, Anas M. The struggle of entertainment and neoliberal postcolonial capitalist politics in "new" Saudi Arabia
DDC:
306.09538
Keywords:
Popular culture Economic aspects
;
Popular culture Social aspects
;
Neoliberalism
;
Postcolonialism
;
Popkultur
;
Unterhaltung
;
Einflussgröße
;
Interesse
;
Soziales Feld
;
Neoliberalismus
;
Kulturpolitik
;
Wirkung
;
Auswirkung
;
Politische Kultur
;
Saudi Arabia Cultural policy
;
Saudi Arabia Civilization 21st century
;
Saudi Arabia Social conditions 21st century
;
Saudi-Arabien
Abstract:
Why Write this Book? Why Saudi Arabia? Why Entertainment? -- Theorizing and Researching Saudi State : Understanding Society, Culture and Nationality -- Entertainment, New Saudi Arabia, and the Question of New Class -- The Political Economy of Cultural Production and the Struggle for Modernity -- Policing the Fun and Politicizing the Entertainment : The Struggle for Cultural Production -- The Neoliberal Politics of the Cultural Production of Entertainment -- What the Future Holds for the "New" Saudi Arabia -- Conclusion: Why Is the New Saudi a New iPhone but Btill in an Old Nokia Software System? -- Epilogue : New Saudi, New Identity, and Neoliberalism
Abstract:
"This book analyzes the General Entertainment Authority of Saudi Arabia in transforming the state into a more neoliberal capitalist form of modernity. This book employs postcolonial analysis to examine how the Saudi government has produced and circulated cultural products in society to serve the postcolonial politics of the Global South"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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