Media, Culture and Society in Iran

Mehdi Semati is Associate Professor of Communication at Eastern Illinois University, USA. His writings on international communication, cultural politics of global communication, popular media and cultural studies, media and terrorism, and Iranian media have appeared in various academic journals and books.

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.

Living with Globalization and the Islamic State: An Introduction to Media, Culture, and Society in Iran Mehdi Semati Part 1: New and Old Media in Iran 1. The Iranian Press, State and Civil Society Gholam Khiabany 2. The Politics of the Internet in Iran Babak Rahimi 3. Youth, Politics, and Media Habits in Iran Kavous Seyed-Emami 4. The Language of Rock: Iranian Youth, Popular Music, and National Identity Laudan Nooshin 5. The Politics of Satellite Television in Iran Fardin Alikhah 6. The Iranian Moral Panic over Video: A Brief History and a Policy Analysis Mahmood Shahabi 7. Sociolinguistic Aspects of Persian Advertising in Post-Revolutionary Iran Mohammad Amouzadeh and Manoochehr Tavangar 8. Trends in Contemporary Persian Poetry Alireza Anushiravani and Kavoous Hassanli 9. Iranian Émigré Cinema as a Component of Iranian National Cinema Hamid Naficy 10. Iranian Cinema and the Critique of Absolutism Zohreh T. Sullivan Part 2: Religion, State, and Culture 11. Fundamentalism, Gender, and the Discourses of Veiling (Hijab) in Contemporary Iran Fatemeh Sadeghi 12. Religious Intellectualism, Globalization, and Social Transformation in Iran Abbas Varij Kazem 13. Secularization in the Iranian Society Yousef Ali Abazari, Abbas Varij Kazemi and Mehdi Faraji Part 3: Epilogue 14. Whither Iran? Majid Tehranian.