Women and TV Culture in Pakistan

ISBN: 9781788311779 出版年：2018 页码：241 Munira Cheema Bloomsbury Publishing

The television broadcasting culture of Pakistan was changed dramatically in 2002. The President, General Pervez Musharraf, introduced a policy of liberalisation that enabled controversial issues such as honour killings, adultery, stoning to death, domestic violence, marriage after divorce and homosexuality to be increasingly depicted on screen.Women and TV Culture in Pakistan is the first in-depth analysis in television content. Munira Cheema focuses on how `gender issues' are dealt with on TV and examines the impafemale viewers. In Pakistan, television is often twhich women can access the public sphere (except through male guardians) and this book evaluates how TV content allows them to navigate their intersecting identities as Muslims, women and Pakistanis. At a time when religious conservatism is on tcountry, this book investigates why producers choose to focus on gender-based issues and the extent to which religion dictates social behaviour and broadcasting choices. Based on interviews with women viewers in Karachi as well as industry professionals including writers, directors and ratings experts, the research is a much-needed and original contribution to global television studies and gender studies.