Politicotainment: Fictionalizing Politics in Pakistani Cinema
This article aims to investigate Maalik, Pakistani political thriller as the product of ‘politicotainment’, a genre combining politics and entertainment. Keeping in view the nexus of politics, media and language, Discourse Historical Approach from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis with a particular focus on media, discourse, and society is employed. Maalik, is exceptional movie because it is explicitly related to real life socio-political and socio-cultural events of Pakistan; its focus on social and political issues such as exploitation of power and corrupt political system shifts the focus towards the ownership of Pakistan and accepting responsibilities. Therefore, the film connects the emerging political discourse in Pakistan with the rising public pulse against corruption and call for accountability. This research provides insights regarding the discursive construction of contemporary Pakistani narrative in the time of national crisis in order to reveal the projected and recontextualized norms in the context of Pakistan.
-
Media, Politics, Politicotainment, Fictionalization of Politics, DHA, CDS
-
(1) Haleema Khalid
Lecturer, Elite College for Girls, Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Shahbaz
Assistant Professor,Department of English, GC Women University Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Behzad Anwar
Assistant Professor,Department of English, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
- Corner, J. and Dick P. eds. (2003). Media and the restyling of politics: Consumerism, celebrity and cynicism. Sage: UK.
- Dawn. (2010). https://www.dawn.com/news/843127.
- Fairclough, N. (1992). Discourse and social change. Vol. 10. Cambridge University Press.
- Hjarvard, S. (2013). The mediatization of culture and society. Routledge Publishers
- Holly, W. (2008). 14. Tabloidisation of political communication in the public sphere1.
- Hussain, S. A. (2017). https://www.youlinmagazine.com/story/70-year-ofpakistani-cinema/ODk4.
- Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M. (2008). Metaphors we live by. University of Chicago Press.
- Lakoff, G. (2008). The political mind: A cognitive scientist's guide to your brain and its politics. Penguin Publishers: UK.
- Lakoff, G. (2010). Moral politics: How liberals and conservatives think. University of Chicago Press.
- Paracha, N. F. (2015). https://www.dawn.com/news/1160205.
- Richardson, K. (2006). The dark arts of good people: How popular culture negotiates 'spin' in NBC's The West Wing 1. Journal of Sociolinguistics 10(1), 52-69.
- Riegert, K. (2007). The ideology of The West Wing: the TV show that wants to be real. 213-236.
- Riegert, K. ed. (2007). Politicotainment: Television's take on the real. Vol. 13. Peter Lang Publishers
- Russell, B. (1946). History of western philosophy and its connection with political and social circumstances from the earliest times to the present day. NY: Simon & Shuster.
- Van Zoonen, L. (2005) Entertaining the citizen: When politics and popular culture converge. Rowman & Littlefield.
- Wodak, R. (2001). The discourse-historical approach. Methods of critical discourse analysis 1, 63-95.
- Wodak, R. (2009). The discourse of politics in action: Politics as usual. Springer Publishers.
- Wodak, R. (2011). Staging politics in television: fiction and/or reality? In Einigkeitsdiskurse, pp. 33-57.VS VerlagfürSozialwissenschaften.
Cite this article
-
APA : Khalid, H., Shahbaz, M., & Anwar, B. (2017). Politicotainment: Fictionalizing Politics in Pakistani Cinema. Global Regional Review, II(I), 273-288. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2017(II-I).19
-
CHICAGO : Khalid, Haleema, Muhammad Shahbaz, and Behzad Anwar. 2017. "Politicotainment: Fictionalizing Politics in Pakistani Cinema." Global Regional Review, II (I): 273-288 doi: 10.31703/grr.2017(II-I).19
-
HARVARD : KHALID, H., SHAHBAZ, M. & ANWAR, B. 2017. Politicotainment: Fictionalizing Politics in Pakistani Cinema. Global Regional Review, II, 273-288.
-
MHRA : Khalid, Haleema, Muhammad Shahbaz, and Behzad Anwar. 2017. "Politicotainment: Fictionalizing Politics in Pakistani Cinema." Global Regional Review, II: 273-288
-
MLA : Khalid, Haleema, Muhammad Shahbaz, and Behzad Anwar. "Politicotainment: Fictionalizing Politics in Pakistani Cinema." Global Regional Review, II.I (2017): 273-288 Print.
-
OXFORD : Khalid, Haleema, Shahbaz, Muhammad, and Anwar, Behzad (2017), "Politicotainment: Fictionalizing Politics in Pakistani Cinema", Global Regional Review, II (I), 273-288
-
TURABIAN : Khalid, Haleema, Muhammad Shahbaz, and Behzad Anwar. "Politicotainment: Fictionalizing Politics in Pakistani Cinema." Global Regional Review II, no. I (2017): 273-288. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2017(II-I).19