Media Culture and Society in Iran

<p>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.</p><p>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. </p>