TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foley,Sean
TI  - Changing Saudi Arabia: Art, Culture, and Society in the Kingdom 
SN  - 9781626377868
AV  - NX573.6.S2 
U1  - 709.538 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - Art
KW  - Saudi Arabia
KW  - Arts and society
KW  - Arts
KW  - Arts-Saudi Arabia
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Mass media-Saudi Arabia
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Stand-up comedy
KW  - Stand-up comedy-Saudi Arabia
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1 Creating Change in Saudi Arabia --; 2 The Modern Saudi Visual Arts Movement --; 3 The Emerging Comedy Scene --; 4 Media Companies and Filmmakers --; 5 Shaping the Future --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access
N2  - T. E. Lawrence once observed that Saudi Arabia had "so little art" that it could "be said to have no art at all." Whether that was once the case is arguable. But that it is not the case now is clear in Sean Foley's Changing Saudi Arabia. Exploring the contemporary arts movement in Saudi Arabia in the context of the kingdom's changing political realities, Foley finds that artists are expressing thoughts and feelings that the Saudi public typically has not felt safe to articulate. These artists are promoting discussions about the need for peaceful and progressive social reform—and they are doing it in ways that escape the wrath of the absolute monarchy. Without confronting the state or the political system, Foley argues, Saudi society is exercising significant agency through its cultural production
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626377868
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626377868
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781626377868/original
ER  -