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  1. Heroes, villains and the Muslim exception
    Muslim and Arab men in Australian crime drama
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria

    "Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception explores recent crime drama film and television depictions of Arab and Muslim men in Australia. It examines the representation of three Australian productions: East West 101, The Combination and Cedar Boys.... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception explores recent crime drama film and television depictions of Arab and Muslim men in Australia. It examines the representation of three Australian productions: East West 101, The Combination and Cedar Boys. Since 2007 Australia has seen a notable increase in the inclusion of Arab and Muslim male characters in various serials and films, but what do these inclusions mean for the place of Arab and Muslim men in Australia today? This book seeks to understand how these representations are constructed and whether they are as progressive and edgy as producers and media responses would suggest. This book explores the extent to which cultural productions such as East West 101, The Combination and Cedar Boys open up a space for new understandings of the place of Arab and Muslim Australians in contemporary Australia. Importantly it considers the role of the Special Broadcasting Service in the plight of anti-racism"--Back cover

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780522872187; 9780522872293
    Series: MUP Islamic studies series
    Subjects: Muslim <Motiv>; Film; Fernsehserie; Araber <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Australian; Muslims on television; Arabs on television; Muslims in motion pictures; Arabs in motion pictures; Motion pictures, Australian; Television broadcasting / Australia; Muslims in motion pictures; Arabs in motion pictures; Arabs on television; Motion pictures, Australian; Muslims on television; Television broadcasting; Australia
    Scope: x, 221 Seiten, 21 cm
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    Contextualising the Arab and Muslim Australian experience -- Using fictional drama to challenge myths -- Using storytelling to speak from the margins -- Multiculturalism and masculinities in crisis -- Is popular culture a tool for developing anti-racism sentiment? -- Characterising Arab Australia as working-class and criminal

  2. Islam and postcolonial discourse
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781317112563; 1317112563; 9781317112570; 1317112571; 9781315589923; 1315589923
    Subjects: Diskurs; Islam; Postkolonialismus; Film; Literatur
    Other subjects: Muslims in literature; Islam in literature; Muslims in motion pictures; Islam in motion pictures; Islam / 21st century; Postcolonialism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Islam; Islam in literature; Islam in motion pictures; Muslims in literature; Muslims in motion pictures; Postcolonialism; 2000-2099; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages), illustration
    Notes:

    Foreword / Claire Chambers -- Introduction / Esra Mirze Santesso -- History of the Muslim Other. Saracens in Middle English romance / Janice Hawes -- The two faced Muslim in the early modern imagination: the cultural genealogy of a modern political dialectic / Imtiaz Habib -- Secularism and Islamopolitics. Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy: mediating secularism in postcolonial Egypt? / Rehnuma Sazzad -- Unmasking Allah: the violence of religious theater in Nawal El Saadawi's God dies by the Nile? / Rajesh Reddy -- The terror of symbols: colonialism, secularism, and Islam in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous adventure and Amitav Ghosh's in An antique land / Vincent van Bever Donker -- Female agency and subversion. Untranslatable acts: veiling and the aporias of transnational feminism / Munia Bhaumik -- Sex and the city of Riyadh: postfeminist fabrication / Jean Kane -- Islamophobia. Islamophobia and its discontents / Tahir Abbas -- British Asian Muslim radicalization: narratives of travelling justice/injustice / Chloe A. Gill-Khan -- Mistaken identities: performances of post 9/11 scenarios of fear and terror in the US / Ketu H. Katrak -- From nawab to jihadi: the transformation of Muslim identity in popular Indian cinema / Alpana Sharma -- Postsecular re-thinking. Politics of privacy: distinguishing religion in poststructuralist discourse / K. Merinda Simmons -- Baghdad, Beirut, and Brooklyn: communal and transnational visions in Muslim and Arab American poetry after September 11 / Levin Arnsperger -- Coming out for Islam: critical Muslim responses to postcolonialism in theory and writing / Nath Aldalala'a and Geoffrey P. Nash

  3. Islam and postcolonial discourse
    Contributor: Santesso, Esra Mirze (HerausgeberIn); McClung, James E. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London

    Foreword / Claire Chambers -- Introduction / Esra Mirze Santesso -- History of the Muslim Other. Saracens in Middle English romance / Janice Hawes -- The two faced Muslim in the early modern imagination: the cultural genealogy of a modern political... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
    GE 2017/2527
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2017 A 13345
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    Universität Konstanz, Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM)
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    Universitätsbibliothek Vechta
    454950
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    Foreword / Claire Chambers -- Introduction / Esra Mirze Santesso -- History of the Muslim Other. Saracens in Middle English romance / Janice Hawes -- The two faced Muslim in the early modern imagination: the cultural genealogy of a modern political dialectic / Imtiaz Habib -- Secularism and Islamopolitics. Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy: mediating secularism in postcolonial Egypt? / Rehnuma Sazzad -- Unmasking Allah: the violence of religious theater in Nawal El Saadawi's God dies by the Nile? / Rajesh Reddy -- The terror of symbols: colonialism, secularism, and Islam in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous adventure and Amitav Ghosh's in An antique land / Vincent van Bever Donker -- Female agency and subversion. Untranslatable acts: veiling and the aporias of transnational feminism / Munia Bhaumik -- Sex and the city of Riyadh: postfeminist fabrication / Jean Kane -- Islamophobia. Islamophobia and its discontents / Tahir Abbas -- British Asian Muslim radicalization: narratives of travelling justice/injustice / Chloe A. Gill-Khan -- Mistaken identities: performances of post 9/11 scenarios of fear and terror in the US / Ketu H. Katrak -- From nawab to jihadi: the transformation of Muslim identity in popular Indian cinema / Alpana Sharma -- Postsecular re-thinking. Politics of privacy: distinguishing religion in poststructuralist discourse / K. Merinda Simmons -- Baghdad, Beirut, and Brooklyn: communal and transnational visions in Muslim and Arab American poetry after September 11 / Levin Arnsperger -- Coming out for Islam: critical Muslim responses to postcolonialism in theory and writing / Nath Aldalala'a and Geoffrey P. Nash

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Santesso, Esra Mirze (HerausgeberIn); McClung, James E. (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781472465443
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    9781472465443
    Subjects: Muslims in literature; Islam in literature; Muslims in motion pictures; Islam in motion pictures; Islam; Postcolonialism
    Scope: xvi, 255 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm