Media, culture and society in Iran : living with globalization and the Islamic state / edited by Mehdi Semati. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. - xii, 277 p. : ill ; 24 cm. - Iranian studies . - Iranian studies (London, England) .



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.

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Mass media--Social aspects--Iran.
Popular culture--Iran.
Islam and culture--Iran.
Islam and secularism--Iran.
Globalization--Social aspects--Iran.
Social change--Iran.

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