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Moroccan Noir: Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture(Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa)

Moroccan Noir: Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture(Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa)


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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 Middle East and North Africa.

Table of 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: Casablanca 6. 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

About the Author :
Jonathan Smolin is Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College. His publications include a translation of Abdelilah Hamdouchi's The Final Bet: A Modern Arabic Novel.

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"Manifest[s] years of painstaking research that come to fruition at a time when its topic - cultures and practices of policing in the Arab world - could not be more urgent for students, scholars, and commentators... Smolin fashions a new critical approach to the question of authoritarianism in the Arabic-speaking region." - Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston "A very timely and well-framed book... opens up a new frontier of research in the domain of media and state... fluid and successful in analyzing one of the most powerful institutions in the country since independence even without being able to enter its secret forts." - Aomar Boum, University of Arizona


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780253010575
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0253010578
  • Publisher Date: 23 Oct 2013
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Series Title: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
  • Weight: 590 gr


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