'No hugging please, we are Muslims': Akademi Fantasia, Malay television audiences and the negotiation of global popular cultural forms

This paper analyses the audience reception of the Malaysian reality television programme Akademi Fantasia (AF), which first aired in 2003 and completed its ninth season in 2011. AF has been an influential pioneer in the national television industry, inaugurating the trend of local reality shows and...

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Main Authors: Shamshudden, Rosya Izyanie, Morris, Brian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2014
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34656/1/No%20hugging%20please.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34656/
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01292986.2013.839725
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Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia
Language: English