Annabelle Sreberny is Professor of Global Media and Communications and Director of the Centre for Media and Film.Massoumeh Torfeh is Research Associate in the Centre for Media and Film. She was previously a senior producer for the BBC World Service.

This volume uncovers an underground world of new technology, media and entertainment that speaks to women seeking a greater public role and a restless younger generation that organises and engages with global trends online.

This volume uncovers an underground world of new technology, media and entertainment that speaks to women seeking a greater public role and a restless younger generation that organises and engages with global trends online.

INTRODUCTION: Annabelle SrebernySocial context and sexuality2.Pardis MAHDAVI - Iran's Youth Movement in Context (Annabelle is going to contact her to see if we can negotiate a revision as she is refusing at the moment) 3.Mahmoud ARGHAVAN - A Cultural Bricolage: Local Traditions and Global Styles in Contemporary Tehrani Youth 4.Azadeh KIAN - Social and Cultural Change and the Women's Rights Movement in Iran 5.Mehri HONARBIN-HOLLIDAY - Emerging Forms in Masculinity in the IslamicPerforming Arts and Cinema6.Liliane ANJO - Contemporary Iranian Theatre: The Emergence of an Autonomous Space 7.Saeed ZEYDABADI-NEJAD - Beyond Gender: Women Filmmakers and Socio-political Critique 8.Parmis MOZAFARI - Dance and the Borders of Public and Private Life in Post-Revolution Iran MUSIC9.Bronwen ROBERTSON - Identity and Expression in Tehran's Unofficial Rock Music Scene10.Nahid SIAMDOUST - Neither 'Islamic' nor a 'Republic:' Discourses in Music REPRESENTATION11.Vit SISLER - Digital Heroes: Identity Construction in Iranian Video Games12.Katja FÖLLMER - Satire in the Iranian Media: Development and Diversity 13.Naghmeh SAMINI - The Exploration of Sexual Taboos in Iran's Text Message Jokes14.AliceBOMBARDIER - Iranian War Painting: New Trends 15.Anna Vanzan - Women PublishersBEYOND BORDERS16.Amin MOGHADAM - The Other Shore: Iranians in the United Arab Emirates

The Islamic Republic of Iran has entered its fourth decade, and the values and legacy of the Revolution it was founded upon continue to have profound and contradictory consequences for Iranian life. Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address diverse areas of social and cultural innovation that are driving change and progress. While religious conservatism remains the creed of the establishment, this volume uncovers an underground world of new technology, media and entertainment that speaks to women seeking a greater public role and a restless younger generation that organises and engages with global trends online.