Middle East Film and Media Books

New and Published Books

1. Arab Cultural Studies

   History, Politics and the Popular

   Edited by Anastasia Valassopoulos

   This book seeks to both showcase and further develop innovative research and debates on contemporary Arab cultural production. Popular culture in the form of cinema, popular music, literature, visual media and cyber-cultures, both local and imported, enjoy a central role in Arab cultural life, and...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. Women and Turkish Cinema

   Gender Politics, Cultural Identity and Representation

   By Eylem Atakav

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle East Film and Media

   Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish cinema to come to terms with the military’s intervention in politics and subsequent national trauma. It has resulted in an outpouring of cinematic texts. This book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of gender politics,...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
3. God, Jews and the Media

   Religion and Israel’s Media

   By Yoel Cohen

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   In order to understand contemporary Jewish identity in the twenty-first century, one needs to look beyond the Synagogue, the holy days and Jewish customs and law to explore such modern phenomena as mass media and their impact upon Jewish existence. This book delves into the complex relationship...

   Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
4. New Media, Politics and Society in Israel

   Edited by Gideon Doron, Azi Lev-On

   This book addresses the social and political landscape of Internet usage in Israel, and studies the formation of a networked information society in the "hi-tech nation". As Israel is considered a highly technologically developed country, it could serve as a model to assess and compare the...

   Published January 23rd 2012 by Routledge
5. The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema

   By Raz Yosef

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   The last decade has marked the growing visibility and worldwide interest in Israeli cinema. Films such as Walk on Water, Or, My Treasure, Beaufort and Waltz with Bashir have been commercially and critically successful both in Europe and the United States and have won a number of prestigious...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
6. Egypt's Culture Wars

   Politics and Practice

   By Samia Mehrez

   Series: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies

   This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies and gender studies to analyze...

   Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
7. Journalism in Iran

   From Mission to Profession

   By Hossein Shahidi

   Series: Iranian Studies

   Focusing on newspapers, radio and television, this book provides the first systematic investigation of the development of journalism in Iran following the 1979 Revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Revolution....

   Published February 3rd 2010 by Routledge
8. Media, Culture and Society in Iran

   Living with Globalization and the Islamic State

   Edited by Mehdi Semati

   Series: Iranian Studies

   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...

   Published February 3rd 2010 by Routledge
9. The Politics of Iranian Cinema

   Film and Society in the Islamic Republic

   By Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad

   Series: Iranian Studies

   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 ...

   Published November 11th 2009 by Routledge
10. Iranian Media

    The Paradox of Modernity

    By Gholam Khiabany

    Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

    The post-revolutionary state in Iran has tried to amalgamate ‘Sharia with electricity’ and modernity with what it considers as ‘Islam’. While sympathetic to private capital, through quasi anti-capitalist politics, the state began to restrict market-relations, confiscate major assets of sections of...

    Published August 4th 2009 by Routledge