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.

Articles include:

• Living with Globalization and the Islamic State: An Introduction to Media, Culture, and Society in Iran
• New and Old Media in Iran
• The Language of Rock: Iranian Youth, Popular Music, and National Identity
• The Iranian Moral Panic over Video: A Brief History and a Policy Analysis
• Trends in Contemporary Persian Poetry
• Iranian Émigré Cinema as a Component of Iranian National Cinema
• Religion, State, and Culture

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