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Gender and Sexual Dissidence on Catalan and Spanish Television Series
Taking as a starting point an interpretation of the television medium as an Ideological State Apparatus, this book examines how gender roles and non-heteronormative sexualities are constructed in Spanish and Catalan television series. In the first part, which focuses on the construction of gender roles in Catalan soap operas, it applies the analytical paradigms founded by Anglo-Saxon feminist scholars for the content of soap operas to a corpus of material which has rarely been analysed through this perspective. In the second part, which focuses on the construction of non-heteronormative sexualities in Spanish and Catalan television series, the book challenges the rhetoric of \"normalisation\" and the \"essentialist\" paradigms which have so far dominated the examination of the construction of sexuality in television series.As such, this book addresses the role performed by television in the construction of meanings which surround gender issues and non-heteronormative sexualities. This is a timely exercise because gender studies and studies of sexual dissidence are fairly recent fields in Spanish and Catalan academia and television has been largely disregarded, especially as far as the analysis of characters and storylines is concerned. As a result, this book represents a major contribution to these fields in the Spanish and Catalan contexts.
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Occidentalism in Turkey: Questions of Modernity and National Identity in Turkish Broadcasting
Here, the particular temporality of a \"frantic stagnation\"-in a more psychological reading of the term coined by Paul Virilio in his general(izing) deliberations on television-is for the first time put into a solid theoretical, historical and empirical framework and shown to characterize the political and media scenario in Turkey till today. While pointing to the large absence of news broadcasts, the chapter focuses on the effort to construct a \"pure\" voice, chiefly through the marginalization of Oriental alaturka music and the shaping of Greek, Armenian, and Kurdish songs into \"a new genre of Turkish folk music\" (85).\\n Women got to speak \"as 'real' persons\" (160) in the radio dramas, which signified Ankara Radio's privileging of fiction over factual output and thus of fantasy over reality.
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