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

by Semati Mehdi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415583195
• ISBN13: 9780415583190
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"