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Media, culture and society in Iran, living with globalization and the Islamic state, editor, Mehdi Semati

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Media, culture and society in Iran

electronic resource

bibliography

editor, Mehdi Semati

Iranian studies

living with globalization and the Islamic state

Examining contemporary media culture in Iran, this book seeks to overturn some Western stereotypes. It argues that existing perspectives on contemporary Iran have failed to adequately explain its social and political transformations because they have not grasped the significant role of the nation's culture., By exploring topics such as the Internet, print press, advertising, satellite television, video, rock music, literature, cinema, gender, religious intellectuals, and secularism, this unique and wide-ranging volume explains Iran as a complex society that has successfully managed to negotiate and embody the tensions of tradition and modernity, democracy and theocracy, isolation and globalization, and other such cultural-political dynamics that escape the explanatory and analytical powers of all-too-familiar binary relations. Featuring contributions from among the best-known and emerging scholars on Iranian media, culture, society, and politics, this volume uncovers how the existing perspectives on post-revolutionary Iranian society have failed to appreciate the complexity, the paradoxes and the contradictions that characterize life in contemporary Iran, resulting in a general failure to explain and to anticipate its contemporary social and political transformations