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A Massacre Foretold: National Excommunication and Al-Gama’a

Walter Armbrust

Middle East Critique, volume 28, issue 2 (2019), pp. 197-217

"Al-Gama’a [The Society], a 28-part television biopic of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, was broadcast in the fall of 2010, just before the January 25, 2011 Revolution. The writer of the series, Wahid Hamid, was an important screenwriter for both television and the cinema and a figure k ... more

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Final Evaluation: Gender Sensitive Public Communication Project

Melike Karlidag, Bérangère Pineau Soukkarieh

Search for Common Ground (2018), 68 pp.

"The Gender Sensitive Public Communications Project was implemented by Search for Common Ground in Lebanon, together with its local partner Abaad, with an aim to promote women’s participation in politics through the production of gender sensitive television drama and short films. Specifically, the ... more

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Von Game of Thrones bis House of Cards: Politische Perspektiven in Fernsehserien

Anja Besand (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), vi, 236 pp.

Décoder les séries télévisées

Sarah Sepulchre (ed.)

Louvain-La-Neuve: De Boeck, 2e éd. (2017), 282 pp.

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Hallyu: Der Boom der südkoreanischen Populärkultur in Asien

Eun-Jeung Lee

In: Länderbericht Korea

Eun-Jeung Lee (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), pp. 391-404

"Tatsächlich erfreuen sich koreanische Fernsehserien und Filme sowie die koreanische Popmusik (K-pop) im Ausland, insbesondere in Ost- und Südostasien, ganz unerwartet großer Beliebtheit. In Südkorea selbst ist man stolz darauf, es - zumindest in der eigenen Wahrnehmung - endlich geschafft zu ha ... more

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Mythology and Society Continuum: A Study of an Indian Television Serial

Arbind Sinha

Religion and Social Communication, volume 12, issue 1 (2014), pp. 19-34

"The study is based on the analysis of legends of 'Devon Ke Dev Mahadev', a mythological drama series that is shown on Indian television channel "Life OK" [...] The story revolves around Lord Shiva or Mahadev - the Lord of Lords as one of the three most powerful mythical characters. The serial is a ... more

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Making Real-Time Drama: The Political Economy of Cultural Production in Syria’s Uprising

Donatella Della Ratta

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2014), 26 pp.

"In CARGC Paper 2, Della Ratta explored how one 2013 Syrian television serial, Wilada min al-Khasira [Birth from the Waist] responded in real time to unfolding events of the Syrian revolution. She argued that the serial offers a living site for scholarly reflection on how cultural production and the ... more

Bestiario de la televisión colombiana: Episodios insólitos en 60 años de historia

Luz Martínez, Nicolás Samper, Federico Arango

Bogotá: Aguliar (2014), 221 pp.

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Escribiendo series de televisión

Rosa Noemí Schrott

Buenos Aires: Ediciones Manantial (2014), 213 pp.

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Nation as Neighborhood: How Bab Al-Hara Dramatized Syrian Identity

Omar Al-Ghazzi

Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 5 (2013), pp. 586-601

"This article discusses a popular Syrian television drama series, Bab al-Hara (The Neighborhood Gate), which ran for five seasons (2006-10). It is part of a genre of television series called the "Damascene milieu," which nostalgically dramatizes life in imagined Damascene neighborhoods in the late 1 ... more

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The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals

Birgit Beumers, Stephen C. Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova (eds.)

New York, NY: Routledge (2011), xv, 245 pp.

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Bleiben Sie dran! Dramaturgie von TV-Serien

Gunther Eschke, Rudolf Bohne

Konstanz: UVK (2010), 256 pp.

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Historical Routes Towards Religious Television Fiction in Post-Mobutu Kinshasa

Katrien Pype

Studies in World Christianity, volume 15, issue 2 (2009), pp. 131-148

"In this article I primarily focus upon locally produced television serials (also called maboke, théâtre populaire, or télédramatiques), which constitute one important genre that help to spread what some describe as the Pentecostalist ideology. The main theme of Kinshasa’s post-millennial tele ... dramas is the spiritual battle (Li. litumba ya molimo). They show how the Devil and his accomplices (demons and witches) operate in the material world and thus combat the Christian God. Witches, fools and pastors are the main protagonists of the teleserials. The programmes often conclude with confessions and deliverances. Such rituals are connected with understandings of evil and culturally accepted means of restoration and purification. The moral progression of the serials’ protagonists reflects a didactic purpose, showing the audience how to become a good Christian and how to hold strong in the spiritual battle (Pype 2008). Special effects are deliberately deployed to make manifest the hidden workings of occult practitioners and the miraculous effects of prayers, deliverance rituals and Christian expertise. With regard to the serials’ format, the insertion of Christian songs at the beginning and ending of the episodes, the dropping of Biblical verses into scenes and display of Bible verses in the corners of the screen during the broadcasts indicate the Christian character of Kinshasa’s teleserials. All these characteristics relate both to the instructive goal of the serials and to the intentions of the dramatic artists to create a mood among the audience to watch the programs as divine lessons. As most of Kinshasa’s evangelising artists state, they aim at bringing a spiritual awareness to the audience. They also hope to transmit spiritual knowledge via the interplay of the fictitious narrative, the power of the Word (activated through the multiple Bible verses that are pronounced) and the image (special effects such as visualisations of the occult). The main questions addressed here are how, why and when Kinshasa’s television serials have acquired this Pentecostalist character. I approach Kinshasa’s teleserials not at all as quasi-timeless symbolic documents but as cultural products that carry a history embedded in the significant political and cultural processes Kinois have witnessed." (Page 133) more

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