Middle East Film and Media Books

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1. Arab Media: From the First Press to the New Media

   Edited by Makram Khoury-Machool

   Arab Media charts the evolution and ownership patterns of different media forms, from the emergence of the Arab press in the second half of the nineteenth century to the rise of radio, television and satellite channels in the twentieth century and the current growth of ICT and the international...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-44373-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. God, Jews and the Media: Religion's Impact on Israel's Media

   By Yoel Cohen

   The book examines the interactions between Jewish identity and mass media. As such, it covers the Diaspora populations of the US and UK as well as Israel itself. Also included are chapters on journalism, broadcasting, advertising and the internet....

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-47503-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema

   By Raz Yosef

   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...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-87688-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Understanding Media and Culture in Turkey: Structures, Spaces, Voices

   Edited by Christian Christensen, Miyase Christensen

   Discourse (both popular and academic) surrounding Turkey has leaned toward the reductionist and the de-contextualized, framing Turkish media, culture and politics in polarized terms such as East vs. West, Modern vs. Traditional or Muslim vs. Christian. The objective of this new volume is to...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-87592-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Journalism in Iran: From Mission to Profession

   By Hossein Shahidi

   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....

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-58316-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Media, Culture and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State

   Edited by Mehdi Semati

   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...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-58319-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Politics of Iranian Cinema: Film and Society in the Islamic Republic

   By Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad

   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 ...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-45537-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity

   By Gholam Khiabany

   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...

   August 2009 | 978-0-415-96289-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Egypt's Culture Wars: Politics and Practice

   By Samia Mehrez

   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...

   2008 | 978-0-415-42897-2 | Hardback (Routledge)