Symbolic Violence Against Women in satelite Drama Channels: An Analytic Study

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The study aimss at detecting images and forms of symbolic violence against women in cinematic drama on satellite channels in the recent years. The social, economic, cultural structure and superstructure of the discourse that uses its expressive tools and mechanisms to introduce women in cinematic drama have been set according to the ideology and orientation of these channels connecting this to the roles, moral values, concepts, and theories that support the symbolic violence against women. The study used a descriptive approach relying on semiology and content analysis.
The recent study has reached several results, among which are the increase of symbolic violence against woman in cinematic drama, and the marginalization of the fundamental issues affecting women focusing on marginal ones which exclude women from the serious roles that express the actual status of women in the Egyptian society. The results involve also the control of cultural globalization on the movies as a cultural industry; something that leads, by time, to distorting the traditional structure of the society, and isolating woman away from their valuable interests.

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  • Receive Date: 09 July 2016
  • Revise Date: 13 August 2016
  • Accept Date: 17 September 2016

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