Tamar Liebes
Biographic Data
| ID | 209656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamar Liebes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamar |
| FAMILY NAME | Liebes |
| SIGNATURE | LIEBES T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 262 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Good news: The Carmel Newsreels and their place in the emerging Israeli language media
The Carmel Newsreels were screened in cinemas for more than a decade before and for two decades after the establishment of the State of Israel (1935–70). The newsreels were of prime importance in creating and documenting visual representations of everyday life in the burgeoning Jewish state, particularly in view of the late introduction of television (1968) to Israel. This article examines the place of the newsreels in the Hebrew language media o…
Chapter eleven On the critical abilities of television viewers
The status of the viewer has been upgraded regularly during the course of communications research. The Israeli groups — some ten from each one of the four communities — were assembled by asking a host couple to invite two other couples from their intimate circle to view an episode of Dallas together, at home, at the time of its broadcast on Israeli television. An effort was made to achieve ethnic homogeneity within each group, and on the whole th…
Transforming Media Coverage of Violent Conflicts: The New Face of War
What links the interviews with Saddam Hussein and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on British and American TV, the chase of journalists following mega-terrorists, and the new status conferred on ordinary people at
Homullus medius: Transforming the logic of reporting at crisis
The aim of this chapter is to pinpoint a dramatic change in media coverage of war, namely, the takeover of ordinary people, and the impact of this trend on the way we see and understand violent conflicts. Whereas during the last decade the rising visibility of ordinary people on television in various entertainment genres has been gradually acknowledged, their dominance in the representation of politics, and war in particular, has yet to be explor…
Hello! This is Jerusalem calling”: The revival of spoken Hebrew on the Mandatory radio (1936–1948)
In this article we argue that an important landmark in the revival of spoken Hebrew has been overlooked by historians, linguists, and culture scholars: the launching of Kol Yerushalayim, the Hebrew Service of British Mandatory Radio, on 30 March 1936. Between 1936 and 1948 the Hebrew Hour became the shared public space in which spoken Hebrew – dynamic, updated, meticulously pronounced – was realized. The important role of the Hebrew radio in the …
Severed Voices: Radio and the Mediation of Trauma in the Eichmann Trial
This essay considers the role of the radio in the mediation of trauma during the 1961 Eichmann trial. It is argued that radio broadcasts from the courtroom occasioned a transformation in the status of Holocaust survivors in Israel, who had been previously seen as deeply traumatized, unable or unwilling to speak about their experiences. Taking to the airwaves facilitated a shift in the conditions by which survivors' testimonies could find public a…
Black and White and Shades of Gray: Palestinians in the Israeli Media During the 2nd Intifada
An examination of the Israeli media coverage of Palestinians during the 2nd Intifada demonstrates a new openness, not compatible with the “crisis routine” of rallying around the flag. Fifteen years earlier, in the 1st Intifada, Palestinians were altogether excluded from the screen. This time round, in spite of the higher level of violence, the Israeli public was exposed to their human side—as political leaders, victims, witnesses, and even terror…
Television News and the Nation: The End
The golden age of television news gave a large majority of otherwise diverse Americans a unified, seamless, and clear-cut image of their nation, its central players, and its agenda. Carefully scheduled, edited, sequenced, and branded, heard and seen simultaneously across America, it provided a pretense of order to the chaos that is news. The permanence and stability of the nation, as expressed in a complex way by TV news, provided Americans with …
Saddam on CBS and Arafat on IBA Interviewing the Enemy on Television
The two cases analyzed here demonstrate a new journalistic practice of interviewing enemy leaders at times of war. We argue that whereas traditionally journalists had accepted the principle that when the nation is under threat, patriotism precedes professionalism, in the new media environment, with the domestic public exposed to international TV channels, this is no longer an option. As a result, journalists act more independently, even when this…
Routinizing Terror: Media Coverage and Public Practices in Israel, 2000-2005
This article argues that counterintuitively, the unrelenting multivictim terrorist attacks on Israel between 1996 and 2004 did not bring about a linear escalation in the intensity of media coverage nor in the demoralization of the public, as seen in the changes in daily routine and in the radicalization of political attitudes. By the use of a combined index based on the length of television’s disaster marathons, their viewing rates, and the exten…
Eichmann on the Air: Radio and the Making of an Historic Trial
Myths to the Rescue: How Live Television Intervenes in History
It Takes Two to Blow the Whistle: Do Journalists Control the Outbreak of Scandal
The article argues that the exposure of scandal, often seen as constituting the highest journalistic achievement, is not necessarily controlled by the journalist. Looking at scandal as the outcome of the varying relationship between reporters and sources, the authors offer a typology of subgenres. Whistle blowing is a story in which the source betrays his or her institutional loyalty (often for a higher cause), entrapment is a story in which the …
Media, Ritual And Identity
Live Television's Disaster Marathon of September 11 and its Subversive Potential
Television's coverage of the tragic events of September 11 can be viewed and understood as a paradigmatic disaster marathon. The salience of the attack's visual images, their exclusivity on the screen for a protracted period, and the invisibility of their perpetrators enhanced the attack's effectiveness. The paper highlights a number of problems that the September 11 disaster marathon poses to the profession of journalism and to society, and poin…
Peres versus Netanyahu: Television Wins the Debate, Israel 1996
At 10 o’clock in the evening, on 29 May 1996, as election ballots closed, the news anchors on Israeli television announced: According to the television sample polling, Shimon Peres has won the election for Prime Minister by a two per cent margin. However, during the long night which followed, as the real results from the various ballots accumulated, this tiny advantage shrank gradually. By next morning it became clear that victory had changed han…
What's bothering Eliasoph? Comments onavoiding politics
Inside a News Item: A Dispute Over Framing
Trust in serious journalism is based on our belief in the professionalism of journalistic practice. We expect televisions evening news to select the most significant events of the day and tell them in a fair and accurate manner. Whereas academic research agrees that news value or newsworthiness should be the guiding principle for selectivity, the principle is rarely spelled out in detail. Occasional attempts to infer these values empirically from…
Displacing the News: The Israeli Talkshow as Public Space
On the assumption that public space in contemporary democracies has shifted to the electronic media, this article points to a generic transformation of prime-time, whereby (in an era of increasing live broadcasting, commercialization and competition) the political talkshow may be replacing the news. On Israeli television, at least, the professional discourse of objectivity, unity and control (which characterized prime-time news in the monopolisti…
Serai-je belle, serai-je riche ? » Images culturelles de la réussite chez les adolescentes
Comment les adolescentes envisagent-elles leur avenir ? Quels sont les modèles auxquels elles voudraient s'identifier ? Quels sont les rôles respectifs du milieu familial et de l'environnement médiatique dans l'élaboration de l'image que les jeunes filles se font d'une vie réussie ? Où en est le projet féministe d'égalité entre les sexes ? Le mot féminisme a-t-il encore un sens ? A partir d'entretiens en groupes avec des garçons et filles israéli…
Global Culture in Practice: A Look at Children and Adolescents in Denmark, France and Israel
This article discusses a preliminary exploration of how globalization becomes embedded into the lives of children and adolescents in three very different countries: Denmark, France and Israel. Analysis of qualitative data collected from the three countries as part of a major cross-cultural study suggests five interrelated practices of globalization: (1) the role of television as both a default medium and as a source of favourite contents; (2) the…
European Soap Operas: The Diversification of a Genre
Analysis of the most popular locally made soap operas in each of five European countries reveals that the soap opera is not simply an imported American genre. The study of British, Scandinavian and European soaps, based on an `ethnographic' approach to the social networks in the world of the soaps, shows that these countries have developed three distinctive subtypes of the genre: the community soap, the dynastic soap and the dyadic soap. For each…
Electronic Journalism in Segmented Societies: Lessons from the 1996 Israeli Elections
A study of the part played by the media in the 1996 elections in Israel reflects on the evolution of new practices of electronic journalism in segmenting democracies. Contrary to prevailing perceptions about the direct barrages of television influences-such as spot advertising, and the televisual promotion of politicians-we show the following: (1) By making it their job to challenge the rhetoric of political advertising, journalists now reduce th…
Where have all the mothers gone? Soap opera's replaying of the oedipal story
Despite recent arguments for the empowering, resistent or feminist content of the soap opera for women viewers, we argue that the dominant tendency is for the American daytime soap opera to represent a traditional conception of women's psychological development. We explore parallels between the soap opera and both fairy tales and therapy. Fairy tales and soaps use analogous permutations of characters and themes to socialize women to the oedipal p…
Another Journey by Train: How television put Holocaust victims on the defensive
Our war/their war: Comparing the intifadeh and the gulf war on U.S. and Israeli television
War coverage puts journalism to the severe test of choosing between patriotic fervor and morale building, on one side, and a more distant and analytical stance, on the other. Journalist choice in wartime can be observed by comparing coverage of “our” war—when the journalist's own country is at war—and “their” war—when the journalist reports on a conflict among nations not his or her own. Comparing Israeli coverage of the Palestinian intifadeh and…
European Soap Operas: The Diversification of a Genre
Analysis of the most popular locally made soap operas in each of five European countries reveals that the soap opera is not simply an imported American genre. The study of British, Scandinavian and European soaps, based on an `ethnographic' approach to the social networks in the world of the soaps, shows that these countries have developed three distinctive subtypes of the genre: the community soap, the dynastic soap and the dyadic soap. For each…
Live Television's Disaster Marathon of September 11 and its Subversive Potential
Television's coverage of the tragic events of September 11 can be viewed and understood as a paradigmatic disaster marathon. The salience of the attack's visual images, their exclusivity on the screen for a protracted period, and the invisibility of their perpetrators enhanced the attack's effectiveness. The paper highlights a number of problems that the September 11 disaster marathon poses to the profession of journalism and to society, and poin…
Cultural differences in the retelling of television fiction
Within the broader study of how viewers from different cultures interpret American television texts, this article examines differences in viewers’ retellings of an episode of Dallas. In settings designed to simulate normal viewing circumstances, small homogeneous groups from five distinct cultural backgrounds watched an episode and then were asked how they would retell the story to someone who had not seen the show. The coding of the group retell…
Patterns of Involvement in Television Fiction: A Comparative Analysis
This article analyses discussions of an episode of Dallas by focus groups of different ethnic origins in Israel and the United States. It identifies four rhetorical mechanisms by which viewers may `involve' themselves in or `distance' themselves from the story: referential v. critical framings; real v. play keyings; collective or universal v. personal referents; and normative v. value-free evaluations. Use of these mechanisms varied across the gr…
It Takes Two to Blow the Whistle: Do Journalists Control the Outbreak of Scandal
The article argues that the exposure of scandal, often seen as constituting the highest journalistic achievement, is not necessarily controlled by the journalist. Looking at scandal as the outcome of the varying relationship between reporters and sources, the authors offer a typology of subgenres. Whistle blowing is a story in which the source betrays his or her institutional loyalty (often for a higher cause), entrapment is a story in which the …
Decoding television news: The political discourse of Israeli hawks and doves
Inside a News Item: A Dispute Over Framing
Trust in serious journalism is based on our belief in the professionalism of journalistic practice. We expect televisions evening news to select the most significant events of the day and tell them in a fair and accurate manner. Whereas academic research agrees that news value or newsworthiness should be the guiding principle for selectivity, the principle is rarely spelled out in detail. Occasional attempts to infer these values empirically from…
Routinizing Terror: Media Coverage and Public Practices in Israel, 2000-2005
This article argues that counterintuitively, the unrelenting multivictim terrorist attacks on Israel between 1996 and 2004 did not bring about a linear escalation in the intensity of media coverage nor in the demoralization of the public, as seen in the changes in daily routine and in the radicalization of political attitudes. By the use of a combined index based on the length of television’s disaster marathons, their viewing rates, and the exten…
Electronic Journalism in Segmented Societies: Lessons from the 1996 Israeli Elections
A study of the part played by the media in the 1996 elections in Israel reflects on the evolution of new practices of electronic journalism in segmenting democracies. Contrary to prevailing perceptions about the direct barrages of television influences-such as spot advertising, and the televisual promotion of politicians-we show the following: (1) By making it their job to challenge the rhetoric of political advertising, journalists now reduce th…
Saddam on CBS and Arafat on IBA Interviewing the Enemy on Television
The two cases analyzed here demonstrate a new journalistic practice of interviewing enemy leaders at times of war. We argue that whereas traditionally journalists had accepted the principle that when the nation is under threat, patriotism precedes professionalism, in the new media environment, with the domestic public exposed to international TV channels, this is no longer an option. As a result, journalists act more independently, even when this…
Managing a Moral Dilemma: Israeli Soldiers in the Intifada
The Palestinian uprising (intifada) in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 has created a moral dilemma for at least some Israeli soldiers who are assigned to participate, however reluctantly, in the military effort to suppress it. The dilemma consists in strong commitment to the army, on the one hand, and objections to its tactics of repression on the other. In an attempt to observe the processes of coping with the resulting dissonancewide…
Global Culture in Practice: A Look at Children and Adolescents in Denmark, France and Israel
This article discusses a preliminary exploration of how globalization becomes embedded into the lives of children and adolescents in three very different countries: Denmark, France and Israel. Analysis of qualitative data collected from the three countries as part of a major cross-cultural study suggests five interrelated practices of globalization: (1) the role of television as both a default medium and as a source of favourite contents; (2) the…
Ideological reproduction
Television News and the Nation: The End
The golden age of television news gave a large majority of otherwise diverse Americans a unified, seamless, and clear-cut image of their nation, its central players, and its agenda. Carefully scheduled, edited, sequenced, and branded, heard and seen simultaneously across America, it provided a pretense of order to the chaos that is news. The permanence and stability of the nation, as expressed in a complex way by TV news, provided Americans with …
The Structure of Family and Romantic Ties in the Soap Opera: An Ethnographic Approach
The authors offer a new approach for the study of soap opera, aimed at discovering the social boundaries within which a particular culture negotiates its primordial relationships. The interaction between culture, power, genre, and gender is revealed by tracing the complex kinship structures of family and romance among soap opera characters and by observing how this structure is activated by the narrative. The advantages of this ethnographic metho…
A Mother's Battle Against TV News: A Case Study of Political Socialization
Adopting the approach that regards TV's effect as an outcome of a process of negotiation between texts and viewers, we identify some mechanisms through which this negotiation takes place. This is a case study where members of one family in Israel, holding different political ideologies, view the evening news together and interact among themselves and with the news. Our analysis suggests that TV news inadvertently privileges a non-compromising att…
Ethnocriticism: "Israelis of Moroccan Ethnicity Negotiate the Meaning of "Dallas
Displacing the News: The Israeli Talkshow as Public Space
On the assumption that public space in contemporary democracies has shifted to the electronic media, this article points to a generic transformation of prime-time, whereby (in an era of increasing live broadcasting, commercialization and competition) the political talkshow may be replacing the news. On Israeli television, at least, the professional discourse of objectivity, unity and control (which characterized prime-time news in the monopolisti…
A propos de la participation du téléspectateur
The author calls into question the different research traditions' propositions for explaining TV viewers' involvement in television texts. Using the example of soaps, she shows how simple dichotomies break up into a number of complex and fluid forms of involvement, with interpretations of the text which lead the same TV viewer to adopt different positions. Negative involvement appears to be a major form of relation to the text, both quantitativel…
Black and White and Shades of Gray: Palestinians in the Israeli Media During the 2nd Intifada
An examination of the Israeli media coverage of Palestinians during the 2nd Intifada demonstrates a new openness, not compatible with the “crisis routine” of rallying around the flag. Fifteen years earlier, in the 1st Intifada, Palestinians were altogether excluded from the screen. This time round, in spite of the higher level of violence, the Israeli public was exposed to their human side—as political leaders, victims, witnesses, and even terror…
Eichmann on the Air: Radio and the Making of an Historic Trial
Severed Voices: Radio and the Mediation of Trauma in the Eichmann Trial
This essay considers the role of the radio in the mediation of trauma during the 1961 Eichmann trial. It is argued that radio broadcasts from the courtroom occasioned a transformation in the status of Holocaust survivors in Israel, who had been previously seen as deeply traumatized, unable or unwilling to speak about their experiences. Taking to the airwaves facilitated a shift in the conditions by which survivors' testimonies could find public a…
Serai-je belle, serai-je riche ? » Images culturelles de la réussite chez les adolescentes
Comment les adolescentes envisagent-elles leur avenir ? Quels sont les modèles auxquels elles voudraient s'identifier ? Quels sont les rôles respectifs du milieu familial et de l'environnement médiatique dans l'élaboration de l'image que les jeunes filles se font d'une vie réussie ? Où en est le projet féministe d'égalité entre les sexes ? Le mot féminisme a-t-il encore un sens ? A partir d'entretiens en groupes avec des garçons et filles israéli…
Six interprétations de la série « Dallas »
Proposant un portrait du spectateur en critique de television, cet article compare, a propos d’une serie americaine mondialement diffusee, les styles critiques propres aux spectateurs appartenant a six differentes cultures occidentales ou traditionelles. Il part d’une distinction entre deux types d’implication du telespectateur Dans un cas, la discussion d’un personnage, d’un probleme ou d’une situation debouche sur des commentaires « realistes »…
Ethnocriticism: "Israelis of Moroccan Ethnicity Negotiate the Meaning of "Dallas
Patterns of Involvement in Television Fiction: A Comparative Analysis
This article analyses discussions of an episode of Dallas by focus groups of different ethnic origins in Israel and the United States. It identifies four rhetorical mechanisms by which viewers may `involve' themselves in or `distance' themselves from the story: referential v. critical framings; real v. play keyings; collective or universal v. personal referents; and normative v. value-free evaluations. Use of these mechanisms varied across the gr…
Cultural differences in the retelling of television fiction
Within the broader study of how viewers from different cultures interpret American television texts, this article examines differences in viewers’ retellings of an episode of Dallas. In settings designed to simulate normal viewing circumstances, small homogeneous groups from five distinct cultural backgrounds watched an episode and then were asked how they would retell the story to someone who had not seen the show. The coding of the group retell…
But There Are Facts: Comments on Roeh
The export of meaning: Cross-cultural readings of Dallas
Prime Time Families: Television Culture in Postwar America.Ella Taylor
A Mother's Battle Against TV News: A Case Study of Political Socialization
Adopting the approach that regards TV's effect as an outcome of a process of negotiation between texts and viewers, we identify some mechanisms through which this negotiation takes place. This is a case study where members of one family in Israel, holding different political ideologies, view the evening news together and interact among themselves and with the news. Our analysis suggests that TV news inadvertently privileges a non-compromising att…
Ideological reproduction
On commuting between television fiction and real life
1992). On commuting between television fiction and real life. Quarterly Review of Film and Video: Vol. 14, New Directions in Television Studies: Essays in Honor of Beverle Ann Houston, pp. 157-178
Our war/their war: Comparing the intifadeh and the gulf war on U.S. and Israeli television
War coverage puts journalism to the severe test of choosing between patriotic fervor and morale building, on one side, and a more distant and analytical stance, on the other. Journalist choice in wartime can be observed by comparing coverage of “our” war—when the journalist's own country is at war—and “their” war—when the journalist reports on a conflict among nations not his or her own. Comparing Israeli coverage of the Palestinian intifadeh and…
Decoding television news: The political discourse of Israeli hawks and doves
Socialization to Conflict: How Jewish and Arab Adolescents in Israel Negotiate Their Political Identity
Journal Article SOCIALIZATION TO CONFLICT: HOW JEWISH AND ARAB ADOLESCENTS IN ISRAEL NEGOTIATE THEIR POLITICAL IDENTITY Get access Tamar Liebes, Tamar Liebes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rivka Ribak Rivka Ribak Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 5, Issue 4, WINTER 1993, Pages 362–368, https://doi.org/10.1093/i…
Six interprétations de la série « Dallas »
Proposant un portrait du spectateur en critique de television, cet article compare, a propos d’une serie americaine mondialement diffusee, les styles critiques propres aux spectateurs appartenant a six differentes cultures occidentales ou traditionelles. Il part d’une distinction entre deux types d’implication du telespectateur Dans un cas, la discussion d’un personnage, d’un probleme ou d’une situation debouche sur des commentaires « realistes »…
Women Watching Television: Gender, Class and Generation in the American Television Experience. Andrea L. Press
In Defense of Negotiated Readings: How Moderates on Each Side of the Conflict Interpret Intifada News
Based on a study of conversations within 50 Jewish and 15 Arab families in Israel during and after “Mabat,” television's evening news program, this article examines the ways in which extremists and moderates in the two communities frame the televised representation of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Practices of partisan journalists who belong to one of the sides in such conflicts between “us” and “them” are shown to reinforce viewers' tendencies to a…
Crimes of Reporting: The Unhappy End of a Fact-Finding Mission in the Bible
This article analyzes the famous Biblical account of a group sent by Moses to scout the Holy Land in anticipation of its conquest (Num. 13-14) and focuses on the unhappy ending of the story. It examines three explanations for why the scouts were punished: (a) for adding their opinions to the facts they were supposed to report (editorializing), (b) for insinuating their opinions into the report itself (bias), and (c) for releasing the report to th…
Narrativization of the News: An Introduction
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What a Relief”: When the Press Prefers Celebration to Scandal
Performing the citizen's role in an enlightened manner requires information and interpretation that are not dependent on government sources. Therefore, the major role assigned to the press by democratic theory is to provide such alternative views of reality. This task becomes particularly difficult in what is defined as a security crisis, where journalists must decide on giving voice to the establishment in the national interest; satisfying the p…
The Structure of Family and Romantic Ties in the Soap Opera: An Ethnographic Approach
The authors offer a new approach for the study of soap opera, aimed at discovering the social boundaries within which a particular culture negotiates its primordial relationships. The interaction between culture, power, genre, and gender is revealed by tracing the complex kinship structures of family and romance among soap opera characters and by observing how this structure is activated by the narrative. The advantages of this ethnographic metho…
A propos de la participation du téléspectateur
The author calls into question the different research traditions' propositions for explaining TV viewers' involvement in television texts. Using the example of soaps, she shows how simple dichotomies break up into a number of complex and fluid forms of involvement, with interpretations of the text which lead the same TV viewer to adopt different positions. Negative involvement appears to be a major form of relation to the text, both quantitativel…
Managing a Moral Dilemma: Israeli Soldiers in the Intifada
The Palestinian uprising (intifada) in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 has created a moral dilemma for at least some Israeli soldiers who are assigned to participate, however reluctantly, in the military effort to suppress it. The dilemma consists in strong commitment to the army, on the one hand, and objections to its tactics of repression on the other. In an attempt to observe the processes of coping with the resulting dissonancewide…
Where have all the mothers gone? Soap opera's replaying of the oedipal story
Despite recent arguments for the empowering, resistent or feminist content of the soap opera for women viewers, we argue that the dominant tendency is for the American daytime soap opera to represent a traditional conception of women's psychological development. We explore parallels between the soap opera and both fairy tales and therapy. Fairy tales and soaps use analogous permutations of characters and themes to socialize women to the oedipal p…
Another Journey by Train: How television put Holocaust victims on the defensive
Global Culture in Practice: A Look at Children and Adolescents in Denmark, France and Israel
This article discusses a preliminary exploration of how globalization becomes embedded into the lives of children and adolescents in three very different countries: Denmark, France and Israel. Analysis of qualitative data collected from the three countries as part of a major cross-cultural study suggests five interrelated practices of globalization: (1) the role of television as both a default medium and as a source of favourite contents; (2) the…
European Soap Operas: The Diversification of a Genre
Analysis of the most popular locally made soap operas in each of five European countries reveals that the soap opera is not simply an imported American genre. The study of British, Scandinavian and European soaps, based on an `ethnographic' approach to the social networks in the world of the soaps, shows that these countries have developed three distinctive subtypes of the genre: the community soap, the dynastic soap and the dyadic soap. For each…
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