Christa Salamandra

Dans le cadre du séminaire "Perspectives et territoires de la recherche au Proche-Orient".

Ifpo, Damas, Abou Roumaneh

The 30-episode dramatic miniseries, or musalsal, dominates public culture in the Arab world. Over the past decade, Syria has developed a commercial television drama industry rivaling that of Egypt, long the center of Arab media production. Drama series produced in Damascus reach vast audiences in the Arab world and beyond, via a growing number of pan-Arab satellite television stations. Drama creators must balance local concerns with regional markets and global forces. This presentation explores the challenges and rewards that ethnographic approaches offer to the study of popular cultural production.