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Honor Crimes and TV Audience Reception: An Analysis of Meaning Production and Gender Interpretations
By Benaz Somiry- Batrawi
Many civil society organizations in Palestine use television for the promotion of different concepts including democracy, justice, the rule of law, media, community development, and gender. This thesis aims at studying honor crimes presented in both drama and documentary film genre and the reception of television audiences: analysis of meaning construction and gender interpretations. It examines how audiences produce and interpret meanings, and whether or not interpretations are related to the audience’s gender.
Honor crimes do attract media attention on a national level, but the impact of media intervention has yet to be evaluated. Existing literature in the Arab region mainly focuses on textual analysis and not the relationship between the audience and the text. Therefore, this study will introduce new knowledge to the existing literature, provide women organizations and other relevant civil society bodies with a modest resource related to the impact of two educational films, and provide audience feedback on the impact of a drama film and a documentary, and assist in audience-text research projects. The study will examine a wide range of the audience’s reactions after watching two video genres, both related to honor crimes, and make careful note of the respondents’ gender. In the first chapter, the study focuses on the historical and theoretical context of audience reception regarding honor crimes. The second chapter demonstrates the methodology of the research. While the third and fourth chapters focus on meaning construction and gender interpretation of both screened films. Chapter five analyzes the main findings in regards to general discourse about honor crimes in the eyes of a television audience based on gender.
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