Media, Culture and Society in Iran
Subtitle: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State (Iranian Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 20, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780415772167
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Political Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Politics/International Relations; Anthropology - Cultural; Film & Video - General; Performing Arts / Film / General; Globalization; Political Ideologies - General; Iran; Islam and culture; Mass media; Popular culture; Social aspects
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.