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Title Media, culture and society in Iran : living with globalization and the Islamic state / edited by Mehdi Semati
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) : illustrations
Series Iranian studies ; 4
Iranian studies (London, England) ; 4.
Contents Living with globalization and the Islamic state : an introduction to media, culture, and society in Iran / Mehdi Semati -- The Iranian press, state, and civil society / Gholam Khiabany -- The politics of the Internet in Iran / Babak Rahimi -- Youth, politics, and media habits in Iran / Kavous Seyed-Emami -- The language of rock : Iranian youth, popular music, and national identity / Laudan Nooshin -- The politics of satellite television in Iran / Fardin Alikhah -- The Iranian moral panic over video : a brief history and a policy analysis / Mahmood Shahabi -- Sociolinguistic aspects of Persian advertising in post-revolutionary Iran / Mohammad Amouzadeh, Manoochehr Tavangar -- Trends in contemporary Persian poetry / Alireza Anushiravani, Kavoous Hassanli -- Iranian émigré cinema as a component of Iranian national cinema / Hamid Naficy -- Iranian cinema and the critique of absolutism / Zohreh T. Sullivan -- Fundamentalism, gender, and the discourses of veiling (Hijab) in contemporary Iran / Fatemeh Sadeghi -- Religious intellectualism, globalization, and social transformation in Iran / Abbas Varij Kazemi -- Secularization in the Iranian society / Yousef Ali Abazari, Abbas Varij Kazemi, Mehdi Faraji -- Epilogue : Whither Iran? / Majid Tehranian
Summary Arguing that existing perspectives on contemporary Iran have not fully grasped the significant role of culture in Iran, this book examines modern culture and media in Iran through a wide range of topics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Mass media -- Social aspects -- Iran
Popular culture -- Iran
Islam and culture -- Iran
Islam and secularism -- Iran
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Iran
Social change -- Iran
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Globalization -- Social aspects
Islam and culture
Islam and secularism
Mass media -- Social aspects
Popular culture
Social change
Iran
Form Electronic book
Author Semati, Mehdi.
ISBN 9780203934838
0203934830
9786611007867
6611007865
1135981566
9781135981563
1281007862
9781281007865