Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture, and the Iranian Revolution

by Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi and Ali Mohammadi

Book Overview

Reveals how small media (leaflets and audio cassettes) played an important role in the revolution that deposed the Shah of Iran.

To most Westerners, the Iranian revolution was a shocking spectacle, a distant mass upheaval suddenly breaking into the daily news. It was, in fact, a revolution of the television era, as these authors book clearly demonstrate. The first account of the role of culture and communication in the Iranian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816622175
• ISBN13: 9780816622177
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"