Television in Turkey : local production, transnational expansion and political aspirations / Yeșim Kaptan, Ece Algan, editors.

This edited collection takes a timely and comprehensive approach to understanding Turkeys television, which has become a global growth industry in the last decade, by reconsidering its geopolitics within both national and transnational contexts. The Turkish television industry along with audiences a...

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Other Authors: Kaptan, Yeșim (Editor), Algan, Ece (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Tables
  • Chapter 1: Television in Turkey: Local Production, Transnational Expansion, and Political Aspirations
  • A Brief History of Television in Turkey
  • Turkish TV's Transnational Expansion
  • Explaining the Popularity of Content Among Transnational Audiences
  • Transnational Marketing of a National Industry: Producers' Perspectives
  • New Platforms and New Players in the Turkish Television Landscape
  • Content of the Book
  • References
  • Part I: Turkish Television in Context: Political Economy, Policy Making, Production, and Reception
  • Chapter 2: The Regulation of Television Content in Turkey: From State Monopoly to Commercial Broadcasting and Beyond
  • Introduction
  • The Establishment of the TRT and Struggle for Autonomy in the Early Years
  • The Start of Television Broadcasts and the End to the TRT's Autonomy
  • Turkey's Introduction to the Neoliberal Order in the Early 1980s and Its Impact on the TRT
  • The 1990s: The End to the TRT's Monopoly and Changes in Broadcasting Regulation
  • The Europeanization Impact on Broadcasting Content Policy in the Early 2000s
  • The Surrender of the Mainstream Media: The AKP Era and Beyond
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Televised Journalistic Documentaries of the 1990s: The Form, Content, and Historical Juncture
  • Television in the 1990s
  • Demirkırat: The Birth of a Democracy
  • 12 March: Democracy Under the Threat of Junta
  • September 12
  • The Legacy
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Revisiting the Unplugged Margins: Rural Television Audiences and Mediatization
  • Introduction
  • Fieldwork in Villages Near the Big City: 1987
  • Fieldwork in Villages Near the Big City: Revisits in 2010
  • Reflections on a Final Revisit: 2019
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part II: What's on TV?: Debates over Identity Politics and Gender
  • Chapter 5: Debating Women's Issues on Turkish Television: Exploring the Role of Political Power in Women's Talk
  • Introduction
  • Literature Review
  • Methodology
  • The Opposite View and its Participants
  • Results
  • Are "we" in or out of Ideology?
  • The Interrupters
  • Oppression or Social Policy? Strategies to Justify the AKP's Policies of Gender
  • Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Women's Fragile Trust: Safety, Familiarity, and Secrecy in the Marriage Show
  • Introduction
  • The Marriage Show's Promise
  • The Fragile Agreement Among Female Participants
  • Familiarity
  • Safety
  • Secrets and Secrecy
  • Trust in One's Self
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Representing Female Detectives in Turkish Police Procedurals
  • Introduction
  • Female Detectives in Police Procedural Genre
  • Culturally Specific Experience of Female Detectives
  • Female Detectives in Turkish Police Procedurals
  • Depicting "the Phallic Girl" in Kanıt