Table of Contents

Media, modernization and mobilization: theoretical overviews; big media, big states and modernization; small media and revolutionary change - a new model; the political economy of media in Iran; media and the state in Iranian history; dependent development and the rise of television; the culture and weapons of opposition; Oppositions - secular and religious; cultural criticism, both secular and religious; language, ideology and authority; the revolutionary process; the "heavy artillery": small media for a big revolution; revolt and revolution - a communications-based narrative; the Islamic Republic, the process of Islamisation Cultural policy under the Islamic Republic; a new cultural atmosphere; the importance of the Iran experience.