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'East West 101 is a television show that bears the traces of the highly charged social and
cultural fields in which it is embedded. At one level, the show bears the traces of recent
events such as the war on terror. At another interrelated level, we also find traces of a
more long-standing and deeply embedded fantasy of White supremacy that marks
Australian culture, even the official policy of multiculturalism. These traces are also
entangled with yet another level, the industrial and political context of the show's
production through the SBS network. My aim in this paper is to explore these complex
entanglements in order to reveal how the challenge to the vilification of Muslims in the
show is limited by the production context. Put another way, my aim will be to temper
the celebration of the show as 'edgy text'.' (Author's abstract)
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East West 101 as Edgy Text : Television Police Drama and Australian Multiculturalism
Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies