Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media

In the West, Islam and Muslim life have been imagined as existing in an opposing state to...
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Author: Rosemary Pennington
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Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media by Pennington, Rosemary

Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media

$482.39

Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media

$482.39
Author: Rosemary Pennington
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In the West, Islam and Muslim life have been imagined as existing in an opposing state to popular culture--a frozen faith unable to engage with the dynamic way popular culture shifts over time, its followers reduced to tropes of terrorism and enemies of the state.

Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media traces narratives found in contemporary American comic books, scripted and reality television, fashion magazines, comedy routines, and movies to understand how they reveal nuanced Muslim identities to American audiences, even as their accessibility obscures their diversity. Rosemary Pennington argues that even as American Muslims have become more visible in popular media and created space for themselves in everything from magazines to prime-time television to social media, this move toward "being seen" can reinforce fixed ideas of what it means to be Muslim.

Pennington reveals how portrayals of Muslims in American popular media fall into a "trap of visibility," where moving beyond negative tropes can cause creators and audiences to unintentionally amplify those same stereotypes. To truly understand where American narratives of who Muslims are come from, we must engage with popular media while also considering who is allowed to be seen there--and why.



Author: Rosemary Pennington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 04/02/2024
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780253069375

About the Author

Rosemary Pennington is Associate Professor of Journalism in Miami University's Department of Media, Journalism & Film. She is editor with Hilary E. Kahn of On Islam: Muslims and the Media and editor with Michael Krona of The Media World of ISIS.


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