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Warring souls : youth, media, and martyrdom in post-revolution Iran / Roxanne Varzi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Varzi, Roxanne, 1971-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media and youth--Iran.
- Mass media and youth.
- Youth--Iran--Attitudes.
- Youth.
- Mass media--Political aspects--Iran.
- Mass media.
- Popular culture--Political aspects--Iran.
- Popular culture.
- Islam and politics--Iran.
- Islam and politics.
- Islam and culture--Iran.
- Islam and culture.
- Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988--Influence.
- Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnography of secular youth culture in Tehran and its resistance to post-Revolutionary Islamicist politics.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822337096
- 0822337096
- OCLC:
- 317331700
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