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Contemporary issues on popular TV fiction: cultural identities and unconscious Malay psyche

In this article, we explore how television fiction viewers (TV fiction viewers) relate to popular TV fiction Julia, On Dhia, and Adam & Hawa. Through interviews and personal narratives, we examine how these TV fiction permit viewers to negotiate against complex Malay cultural issues. We contend...

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Main Author: Mohd Muzhafar Idrus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Group identity > Malaysia
Fiction television programs > Malaysia
Online Access:http://ddms.usim.edu.my:80/jspui/handle/123456789/12831
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spelling my.usim-128312017-03-02T07:59:20Z Contemporary issues on popular TV fiction: cultural identities and unconscious Malay psyche Mohd Muzhafar Idrus Group identity--Malaysia Fiction television programs--Malaysia In this article, we explore how television fiction viewers (TV fiction viewers) relate to popular TV fiction Julia, On Dhia, and Adam & Hawa. Through interviews and personal narratives, we examine how these TV fiction permit viewers to negotiate against complex Malay cultural issues. We contend that as viewers engage with complex, Western-imposed globalization issues as illustrated in Julia, On Dhia, and Adam & Hawa, these TV fiction allow the return to familiar, cultural, local Malay spaces. We propose to understand this engagement with globalization and return to local, cultural routes as unconscious Malay psyche through which these voices (re)configure cultural identities, in some cases, by not simply combining global and local values. Through their stories, we show the participation of some Malay subjects in social and cultural spaces. 2016-11-24T02:28:45Z 2016-11-24T02:28:45Z 2016-07 Article http://ddms.usim.edu.my:80/jspui/handle/123456789/12831 en
institution Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
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topic Group identity--Malaysia
Fiction television programs--Malaysia
spellingShingle Group identity--Malaysia
Fiction television programs--Malaysia
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus
Contemporary issues on popular TV fiction: cultural identities and unconscious Malay psyche
description In this article, we explore how television fiction viewers (TV fiction viewers) relate to popular TV fiction Julia, On Dhia, and Adam & Hawa. Through interviews and personal narratives, we examine how these TV fiction permit viewers to negotiate against complex Malay cultural issues. We contend that as viewers engage with complex, Western-imposed globalization issues as illustrated in Julia, On Dhia, and Adam & Hawa, these TV fiction allow the return to familiar, cultural, local Malay spaces. We propose to understand this engagement with globalization and return to local, cultural routes as unconscious Malay psyche through which these voices (re)configure cultural identities, in some cases, by not simply combining global and local values. Through their stories, we show the participation of some Malay subjects in social and cultural spaces.
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author Mohd Muzhafar Idrus
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title Contemporary issues on popular TV fiction: cultural identities and unconscious Malay psyche
title_short Contemporary issues on popular TV fiction: cultural identities and unconscious Malay psyche
title_full Contemporary issues on popular TV fiction: cultural identities and unconscious Malay psyche
title_fullStr Contemporary issues on popular TV fiction: cultural identities and unconscious Malay psyche
title_full_unstemmed Contemporary issues on popular TV fiction: cultural identities and unconscious Malay psyche
title_sort contemporary issues on popular tv fiction: cultural identities and unconscious malay psyche
publishDate 2016
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