Television and the Afghan culture wars : brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activists /
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Saving "Afghan Women": Gender and the Global World Order
- Beyond Critique: Constituting Subjectivity and Locating Agency
- Race, Ethnicity, and Tribe within the Framework of the Nation-State
- Why TV? Media Forms in a Cross-Regional Context
- Method
- Synopsis of Chapters
- ch. 1 Legitimizing Modernization: Indigenous Modernities, Foreign Incursions, and Their Backlashes
- Social Movements, Indigenous Modernities, and Transcultural Hybridity
- Early Culture Wars: Key Historical Moments
- Amanullah and Soraya, the Modernizers
- Public Works Programs of the 1960s and 1970s
- Soviet invasion and Occupation of the 1980s
- In the Wake of the Soviet-Afghan War and the Cold War
- Conclusion
- ch. 2 Imperialism, Globalization, and Development: Overlaps and Disjuncrures
- Imperial Ambitions: Foreign Projects, Occupations, and Invasions
- Media and Global Flows: From Dallas to Development TV
- From Cultural Imperialism to Globalization and Back Again
- International Development Projects: The Good, the Bad, and the Imperialist
- Conclusion
- ch. 3 Afghan Television Production: A Distinctive Political Economy
- Introduction
- Contradictions and Obfuscations of Foreign Aid
- Ethnography in the Televisual Village: Television Stations, Owners, Sectarian Politics, and Funding
- Genres and Their Discontents
- PSA/PIC, Political Satire and Talk Shows, and News
- Reality TV
- Dramatic Serials
- ch. 4 Producers and Production: The Development Gaze and the Imperial Gaze
- Television: The Ideology Machine
- Decolonizing Television Studies: Managing Incendiary Relations
- Non-Western TV Case Studies: Managing Minorities and the Disenfranchised
- Motivations of Afghan TV Producers: The Development Gaze and the Imperial Gaze
- Reframing Violence: The PIC, Political Satire, and News
- Dramatizing Democracy and Diversity
- ch. 5 Reaching Vulnerable and Dangerous Populations: Women and the Pashtuns
- Language of Ethno-national Subjects: The Taliban, Terrorism, and Pashtuns
- Rhetoric of Saving Afghan Women
- "Our Women": Gender and Sexuality
- Cover Story: The Honor Killings Narrative and the Costs of Going Public
- Right to Dance and Sing: State Sponsorship of Artists and Culture
- Gender Violence: Why Now?
- Women as Projects: The Deadly Intersection of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class
- Possibilities of a Counter-Hegemonic Public Sphere
- ch. 6 Reception and Audiences: The Demands and Desires of Afghan People
- How Audiences Are Imagined
- Audience Feedback, Technologies of Measurement, and the Ratings Industry
- Afghan Audiences Demand Justice
- Retribution for Warlords on TV
- Support for the News and Journalists: The People's Heroes
- Stirring the Ghosts of the Past: New Afghan Genres
- Afghan versus Foreign Programming: The Contradictions in Tastes and Identification
- "Trashy Tastes" and Permeable Borders
- Love Them or Hate Them: The Alternative Lives of Soap Operas
- Far from Mere Entertainment: Will Television Save or Destroy Afghanistan?
- Endogenous Cultural Imperialism
- Performances of Non-performativity and Practices of Unlooking
- Liberatory or Regressive? Weak Heroines and Strong Villainesses
- What Afghan Women Want
- Turkish and Iranian Secular Muslim Productions: A Realm of Redemption and Peace
- Conclusion
- Media Diversity versus Media Imperialism
- Future of Afghan Media, the Future of Afghanistan.