Anas M. Alahmed

The Struggle of Entertainment and Neoliberal Postcolonial Capitalist Politics in "New" Saudi Arabia

The Cultural Production of Modernity in the Global South

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the General Entertainment Authority of Saudi Arabia in transforming the state into a more neoliberal capitalist form of modernity. This book employs postcolonial analysis to examine how the Saudi government has produced and circulated cultural products in society to serve the postcolonial politics of the Global South.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781498593748
• ISBN-10: 1498593747
• Artikelnr.: 64057194

Autorenporträt

Anas Malik Alahmed is teaching assistant professor of communication at Gettysburg College.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Why Write this Book? Why Saudi Arabia? Why Entertainment?
Chapter Two: Theorizing and Researching Saudi State: Understanding Society,
Culture and Nationality
Chapter Three: Entertainment, New Saudi Arabia, and the Question of New
Class
Chapter Four: The Political Economy of Cultural Production and the Struggle
for Modernity
Chapter Five: Policing the Fun and Politicizing the Entertainment: The
Struggle for Cultural Production
Chapter Six: The Neoliberal Politics of the Cultural Production of
Entertainment
Chapter Seven: What the Future Holds for the 'New' Saudi Arabia
Conclusion: Why Is the New Saudi a New iPhone but Btill in an Old Nokia
Software System?
Epilogue: New Saudi, New Identity, and Neoliberalism
Bibliography
Index
About the Author