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african history
arab league park
Author_Susan Ossman
casablanca
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changing rituals
city
city life
colonial planning
cultural studies
digital art
elections
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ethnography
everyday lives
films
gender roles
gender studies
geography
madonna videos
mass images
media
modern media
morocco
political leaders
politics
posters
rules of conduct
social practices
social time
social traditions
staged political spectacles
state bureaucracy
state power
structures of power
television and film
urban
urban life
videotapes
visual media
Product details
- ISBN 9780520084032
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Dec 1994
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Picturing Casablanca, Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals. In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative, cultural reportage, and the author's firsthand experiences, Ossman sketches a radically new vision of Casablanca as a place where social practices, traditions, and structures of power are in flux. Ossman guides the reader through the labyrinthine byways of the city, where state bureaucracy and state power, the media and its portrayal of the outside world, and people's everyday lives are all on view. She demonstrates how images not only reflect but inform and alter daily experience. In the Arab League Park, teenagers use fashion and flirting to attract potential mates, defying traditional rules of conduct. Wedding ceremonies are transformed by the ubiquitous video camera, which becomes the event's most important spectator. Political leaders are molded by the state's adept manipulation of visual media.
From Madonna videos and the TV's transformation of social time, to changing gender roles and new ways of producing and disseminating information, the Morocco that Ossman reveals is a telling commentary on the consequences of colonial planning, the influence of modern media, and the rituals of power and representation enacted by the state.
Susan Ossman is Professor of Global Studies and Anthropology at UC Riverside.
