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Moroccan Noir : Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013

Online-Ressource (308 p)

Englisch

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Style; Introduction: State, Mass Media, and the New Moroccan Authoritarianism; 1 Police on Trial: The Tabit Affair, Newspaper Sensationalism, and the End of the Years of Lead; 2 ""He Butchered His Wife Because of Witchcraft and Adultery"": Crime Tabloids, Moral Panic, and the Remaking of the Moroccan Cop; 3 Crime-Page Fiction: Moroccan True Crime and the New Independent Press; 4 Prime-Time Cops: Blurring Police Fact and Fiction on Moroccan Television

5 The Moroccan ""Serial Killer"" and CSI: Casablanca6 From Morocco's 9/11 to Community Policing: State Advertising and the New Citizen; Epilogue: ""The Police Are at the Service of the People""; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Print version: Moroccan Noir : Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture

978-0-253-01057-5

978-0-253-01057-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

769467067

Online-Ausg.

978-0-253-01073-5 ( : 20.79 (NL))

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HV8268.3.A2 .S66 2013 ; HV8268.3.A2

306.280964 ; 306.280964     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Mass media policy - Morocco ; Police -- Morocco ; Police in popular culture -- Morocco ; Crime in popular culture -- Morocco ; Mass media and crime -- Morocco ; Police in mass media ; Crime in mass media ; Mass media policy -- Morocco

Mass media policy - Morocco ; Electronic books

Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new era. Jonathan Smolin examines popular culture and mass media to understand the changing nature of authoritarianism in Morocco over the past two decades. Using neglected Arabic sources including crime tabloids, television movies, true-crime journalism, and police advertising, Smolin sheds new light on politics and popular culture in the Mid