The End of the State Monopoly over Culture

Toward the Commodification of Cultural and Artistic Production

Bibliographic Data

ID21207484
AuthorsCécile Boëx (0000-0003-3788-5204, Institut français du Proche-Orient, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume20
Issue2
Pages139-155
Publication date2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMiddle East Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1943-6149 • E-ISSN: 1943-6157
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19436149.2011.572411
OpenAlexW2000183157
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited10

TaÌyâ as-sînamâ !Production of Meaning: the political stakes of expression in the public space.This article focuses on the political stakes involved into public expression in Syria and more specifically artistic expression, through the lens of the most recent film festival of Damascus.This event is particularly relevant of the different ways culture and artistic production can be co-opted by political interest.This particular approach will enable us to cast light on the attempts of an authoritarian regime to control the production of meaning and impose its interpretation of events.We will demonstrate that this context has not prevented dissenting expressive practices, embedded in various strategies of circumvention.We will illustrate these practices through examples form different registers : the last demonstrations against the Mehlis investigation, and cinematographic expression, which has played a leading role in bringing dissension into the public sphere

Aesthetics · Art · Commodification · Economics · Market economy · Microeconomics · Monopoly · Production (economics) · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development

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