Pretty liar : television, language, and gender in wartime Lebanon /

How did a new, irresistible brand of television emerge from the Lebanese Civil War (1975-91) to conquer the Arab region in the satellite era? What role did seductive news anchors, cool language teachers, superheroes, and gossip magazines play in negotiating a modern relationship between television a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Khazaal, Natalie (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2018]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Téle Liban. Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International. Civil War (Lebanon : 1975-1990) Television broadcasting > Lebanon. Television and politics > Lebanon. Mass media and language > Lebanon. Sex role on television. Lebanon > History > Civil War, 1975-1990 > Television and the war. Mass media and language. Television and politics. Television broadcasting. War and television. Lebanon. 1975-1990 History.

Table of Contents:

History of Lebanese television and the television-audience relationship
The war triangle : from disengagement to engagement on the news
Télé liban : the peace bubble and the crisis of legitimacy
Audiences : sarcasm, the new hero of television, and the components of modern legitimacy
LBC : an illegitimate militia seeks legitimacy in participating audiences and accommodating media
Language politics and gender politics on entertainment television
Télé liban in defense of fusha
LBC and language pessoptimism
War, modernity, and the crisis of patriarchy
Conclusion : the case for the study of Lebanese broadcast television.