Media, culture and society in Iran : living with globalization and the Islamic state / edited by Mehdi Semati.

"First published in 2008. Transferred to Digital Printing 2010."--T.p. verso of paperback edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 âemigrâe 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.

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.