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1	Dramas of the Authoritarian State. The politics of Syrian TV serials in the Pan Arab market Della Ratta, Donatella 29 April 2013 (has links) (PDF) The aim of this research is to reflect on how Syrian TV drama has worked to produce a narrative of 9 society in the context of a liberalized autocracy, such as Bashar al-Asad's Syria appears to be; and how this narrative has been commodified for and promoted on the Pan Arab market. My work focuses on the mechanism by which this form of elite cultural production, in tune with the agenda of the political elites, has elaborated and projected disciplinary and pedagogical messages for the Syrian public. It analyses the forms this subtle mechanism has taken in a market-oriented framework, where neoliberal "fantasies of accommodation and order"6 and for the thrill of consumption and a free choice between a range of lifestyles have given those in power novel ways of inducing compliance, while at the same time spreading new fears of the threat of instability and disorder in an increasingly complex and difficult to comprehend world. Syrian TV drama Damascus Spring Pan Arab television Syrian uprising musalsalat
2	The Syrian private media and discourse of the development of the Syrian national economy Caldwell, Leah Monical 26 October 2010 (has links) In 2001, Syria opened its media outlets to private ownership for the first time in over forty years. This thesis conducts a critical discourse analysis of the economic coverage of the sole Syrian political daily newspaper al-Watan and asks how media liberalization in Syria is more so emblematic of pro-market economic reforms as opposed to media reform. In this sense, it is the economic content of al-Watan that signifies how a private media outlet – under the guiding force of “red lines” and other regulatory mechanisms, yet financially “liberated” via advertising revenue and wealthy regime-friendly backers – can demonstrate its utility to the regime by providing a reiteration of its social-market economic policies all the while existing as a public embodiment of the regime’s willingness to embrace a marketized Syrian society. Simply put, al-Watan is a perfect vehicle for propagating the regime’s gradualist pro-market reforms in the public sphere. / text Syria Media Private media Privately-owned media Official media Censorship Infitah Syrian economy Syrian economic opening Damascus Spring Syrian economic transition Bashar al-Asad Development Syria discourse analysis

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Dramas of the Authoritarian State. The politics of Syrian TV serials in the Pan Arab market

The Syrian private media and discourse of the development of the Syrian national economy