Neo-Ottoman Cool: Turkish Popular Culture in the Arab Public Sphere

In the past decade, Turkish television drama has enjoyed popular success in the Arab world, fueling wide-ranging controversies in the pan-Arab public sphere. Such popularity is at first sight puzzling. After all, Arabs lived under Ottoman rule for 400 years, and for most of the 20th century Turkey's foreign policy neglected Arab interests. Why, then, would Turkish drama be popular with Arab audiences, especially at a time of unprecedented vibrancy in Arab cultural production? This article grapples with that question via a systematic analysis of pan-Arab discourse about Turkish popular culture, concluding that some Turkish dramas conjure up an accessible modernity while others enact a counter-hegemonic narrative that puts Middle Easterners in the role of heroes. The rise of Turkish television drama in the Arab public sphere offers insights into the geopolitical underpinnings and geocultural consequences of transnational media flows. … celý popis

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Publikováno v

Popular communication Ročník 11; číslo 1; s. 17 - 29

Hlavní autoři

Kraidy, Marwan M., Al-Ghazzi, Omar

Typ dokumentu

Journal Article

Jazyk

English

Vydáno

Philadelphia Taylor & Francis Group 01. 01. 2013
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Témata

Arab people

Audiences

Discourse Analysis

Empires

Foreign Policy

Modernity

Popular Culture

Public spaces

Public Sphere

Television

Television programs

Turkey

Twentieth Century

Turkey

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ISSN

1540-5702
1540-5710

DOI

10.1080/15405702.2013.747940