The Exillic Television Genre and its Textual
Politics and Signifying Practices
by Hamid Naficy
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The approach to the analysis of television adopted here considers exile television as a genre, with its own televisual flow, textual strategies, and signifying practices. This might be called a "generic ritual" approach, since it seeks to understand not only the genre itself but also its interplay with the evolving community that produces and consumes it. For a community living in the liminality and arachy of exile, the television that it produces and consumes is a vehicle through which the exilic subculture and its emmbers, collectively or individually, construct themselves in the new environment.