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Title Cultural revolution in Iran : contemporary popular culture in the Islamic Republic / edited by Annabelle Sreberny & Massoumeh Torfeh.

Publication Info. London, England : I.B. Tauris, 2013.
New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Palgrave MacMillan.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 287 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series International library of Iranian studies ; 41
International library of Iranian studies ; 41.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary The Islamic Republic of Iran has entered its fourth decade, and the legacy of the Revolution it was founded upon continue to have a profound consequence on Iranian life. This book draws on the expertise of Iranian and international academics to address diverse areas of social and cultural innovation that are driving change and progress.
Contents Thirty-plus years of the Iranian revolution: culture and contestation / Annabelle Sreberny -- Part 1. Social context and sexuality -- Iran's green movement in context / Pardis Mahdavi -- Tehrani cultural bricolage: local traditions and global styles of Tehran's non-conformist youth / Mahmoud Arghavan -- Social and cultural change and the women's rights movement in Iran / Az̜adeh Kian -- Emerging forms of masculinity in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Mehri Honarbin-Holliday -- Part 2. Performing arts and cinema -- Contemporary Iranian theatre: the emergence of an autonomous space / Liliane Anjo -- Dance and the borders of public and private life in post-revolution Iran / Parmis Maz̜afari -- Beyond gender: women filmmakers and sociopolitical critique / Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad -- Part 3. Music -- 'I am an original Iranian man': identity and expression in Tehran's unofficial rock music / Bronwen Robertson -- Neither 'Islamic' nor a 'Republic': discourses in music / Nahid Siamdoust -- Part 4. Representation -- Digital heroes: identity construction in Iranian video games / Vit Šisler -- Satire in the Iranian media: development and diversity / Katja Föllmer -- Gendered taboos in Iran's text message jokes / Naghmeh Samini -- Iranian mural painting: new trends / Alice Bombardier -- From the pen to the rotary press: women book publishers in post-revolutionary Iran / Anna Vanz̨an -- Part 5. Beyond borders -- Other shore: Iranians in the United Arab emirates between visibility and invisibility / Amin Moghadam.
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Subject Revolution (Iran : 1979)
Iran -- History -- Revolution, 1979.
Iran -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997.
Iran.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1979-1997
Subject Iran -- Politics and government -- 1997-
Chronological Term 1997-
Subject Iran -- Civilization -- 21st century.
Civilization.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Iran -- Social conditions -- 1997-
Social conditions.
Chronological Term Since 1979
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Sreberny, Annabelle, editor.
Torfeh, Massoumeh, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Cultural revolution in Iran 9781780760896 (OCoLC)778327375
ISBN 9780857722973 (electronic book)
0857722972 (electronic book)
1306171385 (e-book)
9781306171380 (e-book)
9781780760896
1780760892