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Author Smolin, Jonathan, author.

Title Moroccan noir : police, crime, and politics in popular culture / Jonathan Smolin.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : state, mass media, and the new Moroccan authoritarianism -- Police on trial : the Tabit Affair, newspaper sensationalism, and the end of the Years of Lead -- "He butchered his wife because of witchcraft and adultery" : crime tabloids, moral panic and the remaking of the Moroccan cop -- Crime-page fiction : Moroccan true crime and the new independent press -- Prime-time cops : blurring police fact and fiction on Moroccan television -- The Moroccan "serial killer" and CSI : Casablanca -- From Morocco's 9/11 to community policing : state advertising and the new citizen -- Epilogue : "the police are at the service of the people."
Summary Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new era. Jonathan Smolin examines popular culture and mass media to understand the changing nature of authoritarianism in Morocco over the past two decades. Using neglected Arabic sources including crime tabloids, television movies, true-crime journalism, and police advertising, Smolin sheds new light on politics and popular culture in the Mid.
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Subject Police -- Morocco.
Police.
Morocco.
Police in popular culture -- Morocco.
Police in popular culture.
Crime in popular culture -- Morocco.
Crime in popular culture.
Mass media and crime -- Morocco.
Mass media and crime.
Police in mass media.
Police in mass media.
Crime in mass media.
Crime in mass media.
Mass media policy -- Morocco.
Mass media policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Police.
Other Form: Print version: Smolin, Jonathan, author. Moroccan noir 9780253010575 (DLC) 2013019514 (OCoLC)830946901
ISBN 9780253010735 electronic book
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