: Youth, media, and martyrdom in post-revolution Iran
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Roxanne Varzi.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Durham
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Duke University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiv, 290 p.
Other Physical Details
: ill.
Dimensions
; 23 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.