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Consumerist Orientalism

Name: Consumerist Orientalism
ISBN: 9781838600686

The Convergence of Arab and American Popular Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism

M. Keith Booker,

Isra Daraiseh,

272 pages
English
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Consumerist Orientalism

The Convergence of Arab and American Popular Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism

M. Keith Booker,

Isra Daraiseh,

About this book

In a postmodern world of globalised capital, how does the concept of Orientalism inform understandings of cultural exchange? In this detailed and wide-ranging examination, Arab popular culture is explored in its relation to American culture and capitalism. Offering new insights on Edward Said's longstanding theoretical lens, Consumerist Orientalism presents an updated conceptual framework through which to understand the intercultural relationship between East and West, exploring a wide range of cultural production; from an Oscar-nominated Jordanian film to Turkish-Arab soap operas and Arab-diaspora rap. Drawing on key contemporary critical thinkers and in-depth cultural analysis, the relationship between capitalism, postmodernism and Orientalism is explored with fresh insights, making this essential reading for students of Middle Eastern culture, globalisation and postcolonial studies.

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Title Page
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Introduction: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Transnational Flow in the Age of Global Capitalism
Chapter 1: From Circus Sideshows to Music Videos: Orientalism and the Rise of American Consumer Capitalism
Chapter 2: “Shake Ya body like a Belly Dancer”: Orientalism in American Music Videos
Chapter 3: I’d Like to Sell the World a Coke: Arab Pop Music and Pop Music Video Clips
Chapter 4: “They Can’t Use My Music to Advertise for Coca-Cola”: Arab and Arab Diasporic Rap and the Resistance to Postmodernism
Chapter 5: As the World Turns from the East to the West: Tradition, Modernity, and Gender in the Arabic-dubbed Turkish Soap Opera Noor
Chapter 6: Arabs Got TV: The “Americanization” of Arab Televisual Culture
Chapter 7: Deconstructing the Myth of the Western Hero through Arab Film: Theeb, the Orientalist Logic of Good versus Evil, and the Birth of Jordan
Conclusion: Ideology, Utopia, and Arab Popular Culture
Notes
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