Oppositional banality: Watching ordinary Muslims in LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE

Chao, Jenifer

doi:10.5117/NECSUS2015.1.CHAO

dc.creator	Chao, Jenifer
dc.date.accessioned	2018-09-26T11:53:47Z
dc.date.available	2018-09-26T11:53:47Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/oppositional-banality-watching-ordinary-muslims-in-little-mosque-on-the-prairie/
dc.identifier.uri	https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3351
dc.description.abstract	This essay interrogates how the globally-syndicated series LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE (2007-2012) mobilises one of the most beloved television formats – the situation comedy – to insert a banal and normalised gaze toward Muslims and contest hostile representations of Islam in Western media. Through what I have termed ‘oppositional banality’ the show relocates Muslim identities to the realm of everyday life and out of the confines of global terrorism. Rather than being under the scrutiny of news cameras and viewed through cataclysmic international events the Muslims in LITTLE MOSQUE are made comical and timeless, subjected to the emotional entanglements of ordinary life.	en
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Amsterdam University Press
dc.relation.ispartofseries	NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subject	Islam	de
dc.subject	Muslim
dc.subject	Widerstand	de
dc.subject	Darstellung	de
dc.subject	bildliche Darstellung	de
dc.subject	Situationskomödie	de
dc.subject	Sitcom	de
dc.subject	Fernsehen	de
dc.subject	Islam	en
dc.subject	cultural resistance	en
dc.subject	media representation	en
dc.subject	situation comedy	en
dc.subject	television	en
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:791
dc.title	Oppositional banality: Watching ordinary Muslims in LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE	en
dc.type	article
dcterms.bibliographicCitation	Chao, Jenifer (2015): Oppositional banality: Watching ordinary Muslims in LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 4 (1), 27–45. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2015.1.CHAO.
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
local.source.spage	27
local.source.epage	45
local.source.issue	1
local.source.volume	4
dc.identifier.doi	10.5117/NECSUS2015.1.CHAO
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15168
dc.subject.work	LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE
dc.relation.isPartOf	issn:2213-0217
dc.publisher.place	Amsterdam
local.coverpage	2021-05-29T05:25:31
local.identifier.firstpublished	https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2015.1.CHAO

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