Dramas of Nationhood : The Politics of Television in Egypt

The University of Chicago Press

Dramas of Nationhood\nby Lila Abu-Lughod\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Lila Abu-Lughod\nTitle: Dramas of Nationhood\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Media studies\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press\nPublication year: 2004\nISBN-13: 9780226001968\nISBN-10: 0226001962\nRRP: \u00A380.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nHow do people come to think of themselves as part of a nation? Dramas of Nationhood identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egyptian nationtelevision serials. These melodramatic programslike soap operas but more closely tied to political and social issues than their Western counterpartshave been shown on television in Egypt for more than thirty years. In this book, Lila Abu-Lughod examines the shifting politics of these serials and .