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By 2010, Arabic entertainment television was dominated by three main trends—reality television, nostalgic period pieces of bygone Damascus days, and Turkish soap opera imports. Neither traditional print media nor the new digital media competed in breadth of distribution and appeal with these television genres in the first decade of the twenty-first century. As the manifestation of a very successful business model combining Syrian dramatic productions with Saudi production capital, they dealt colloquially with questions of patriarchy and individual agency in the past and in the present.
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Hudson, L. (2014). Neopatriarchy in Syrian and Turkish Television Drama: Between the Culture Industry and the Dialect Imagination. In: Hudson, L., Iskandar, A., Kirk, M. (eds) Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring. Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137403155_7
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