아랍 문화코드 내 이슬람주의

Islamism in Arab Culture Code

Arab dramas have represented dominant popular cultural phenonenon among the Arab public during the last several decades. However, a thorough research on what culture codes dominate the drama serials has not attracted a great attention. Thus, this paper aims at exploring the characteristics of Arab dramas in order to understand what the main culture codes are represented in major drama products. This research was based on qualitative culture code approach in the analysis of collected dramas. This is because it may enable us to understand what constitutes main culture codes in the Arab public culture and visual contents. Through this analysis, Islamic or Islamism culture codes in major Arab dramas can be more scientifically measured. The data collected for this study are 13 Arabic dramas announced in ‘Ramadan 2015 Series List’ of www.elcinema.com. This study examined and analyzed contents of the collected drama serials on the framework of major 3 Islamic or Islamism culture codes: justice, fatalism, and communalism. Through these qualitative analysis, this study would extract to what degree these Islamic culture codes are reflected on the sample dramas.