Iranian Studies
About the Book Series
Since 1967 the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) has been a leading learned society for the advancement of new approaches in the study of Iranian society, history, culture, and literature. The new ISIS Iranian Studies series published by Routledge will provide a venue for the publication of original and innovative scholarly works in all areas of Iranian and Persianate Studies.
Media, Culture and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State
1st Edition
Edited
By Mehdi Semati
February 04, 2010
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 ...
The Politics of Iranian Cinema: Film and Society in the Islamic Republic
1st Edition
By Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad
December 11, 2009
Iran has undergone considerable social upheaval since the revolution and this has been reflected in its cinema. Drawing on first-hand interviews and detailed ethnographic research, this book explores how cinema is engaged in the dynamics of social change in contemporary Iran. The ...
Iran in the 21st Century: Politics, Economics & Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Homa Katouzian, Hossein Shahidi
November 28, 2007
Iran is an ancient country, an oil-exporting economy and an Islamic Republic. It experienced two full-scale revolutions in the twentieth century, the latter of which had large and important regional and international consequences, including an eight-year war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. ...