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Subject(s)

• Mass media and youth—Iran [Browse]
• Youth—Iran—Attitudes [Browse]
• Mass media—Political aspects—Iran [Browse]
• Popular culture—Political aspects—Iran [Browse]
• Islam and politics—Iran [Browse]
• Islam and culture—Iran [Browse]
• Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988—Influence [Browse]

Series

e-Duke books scholarly collection [More in this series]

Summary note

An ethnography of secular youth culture in Tehran and its resistance to post-Revolutionary Islamicist politics.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Divination : an archeology of the unknown
• The image and the hidden master
• Mystic states : martyrdom and the making of the Islamic republic
• Shooting soldiers, shooting film : the cinema of the Iranian sacred defense
• Visionary states : inhabiting the city, inhabiting the mind
• Shifting subjects : public law and private selves
• Majnun's mask : sex, suicide, and semiotic malfunctioning
• The ghost in the machine : (just war?) remainders and reminders of war
• Reforming religious identity in post-Khatami Iran
• Mehdi's climb.

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ISBN

• 9780822388036 (electronic bk.)
• 0822388030 (electronic bk.)

LCCN

2005034368

OCLC

1224278604

International Article Number

• 9780822337218

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