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NDE and Televisual Hegemony: An Ideological Analysis of Life After Life

Authors
Alireza Azeri Matin1, *
1Faculty of Science and Arts, International University of Malaya-Wales, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
*Corresponding author. Email: azeri_matin@yahoo.com
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Alireza Azeri Matin
Available Online 31 August 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-098-5_22How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Near-death Experience; Iranian Television; Hegemony; Representation
Abstract

The near-death experience (NDE) is an unusual out-of-body incident taking place on the brink of death which is recounted by a person on recovery. With globalization of media, the retellings of these personal experiences have become a commonplace phenomenon, fascinating many people around the world regardless of the nationality, religious orientation or any other living circumstances of both the experiencers and their audiences. Following this trend, in 2020 the channel 4 of Iranian television premiered Life after Life a TV series broadcast during Ramadan. Gaining popularity among Iranians, this reality TV series has reached its third season in 2022. Despite the apparent authenticity of the NDE accounts in Life after Life, this television program creatively combines a selection of these personal narratives with religious specialists’ exegeses, transforming individuals’ experiences into televisual hegemony. Using an ideological analysis, this study explains how the cultural foundation and powerful stories of Shi’ism are represented and reaffirmed as reality.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication and Media 2022 (i-COME 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 August 2023
ISBN
978-2-38476-098-5
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-098-5_22How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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