Media, Culture and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State

by Semati; Mehdi

• ISBN13: 9780415772167
• ISBN10: 0415772168
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Living with globalization and the Islamic state: an introduction to media, culture, and society in Iran	p. 1
New and old media in Iran	p. 15
The Iranian press, state, and civil society	p. 17
The politics of the Internet in Iran	p. 37
Youth, politics, and media habits in Iran	p. 57
The language of rock: Iranian youth, popular music, and national identity	p. 69
The politics of satellite television in Iran	p. 94
The Iranian moral panic over video: a brief history and a policy analysis	p. 111
Sociolinguistic aspects of Persian advertising in post-revolutionary Iran	p. 130
Trends in contemporary Persian poetry	p. 152
Iranian emigre cinema as a component of Iranian national cinema	p. 167
Iranian cinema and the critique of absolutism	p. 193
Religion, state, and culture	p. 205
Fundamentalism, gender, and the discourses of veiling (Hijab) in contemporary Iran	p. 207
Religious intellectualism, globalization, and social transformation in Iran	p. 223
Secularization in Iranian society	p. 238
Epilogue	p. 255
Epilogue: Whither Iran?	p. 257
Index	p. 270
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