Moroccan noir : police, crime, and politics in popular culture / Jonathan Smolin.
Series: Public cultures of the Middle East and North AfricaPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (308 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780253010735 (e-book)
- 9780253010575
- 306.280964 23
- HV8268.3.A2 S66 2013eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : state, mass media, and the new Moroccan authoritarianism -- Police on trial : the Tabit Affair, newspaper sensationalism, and the end of the Years of Lead -- "He butchered his wife because of witchcraft and adultery" : crime tabloids, moral panic and the remaking of the Moroccan cop -- Crime-page fiction : Moroccan true crime and the new independent press -- Prime-time cops : blurring police fact and fiction on Moroccan television -- The Moroccan "serial killer" and CSI : Casablanca -- From Morocco's 9/11 to community policing : state advertising and the new citizen -- Epilogue : "the police are at the service of the people."
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