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    Dr. Tony Kashani

    Tony Kashani, Ph.D. is an Iranian-American author, educator and cultural critic. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Humanities with emphasis on culture studies from California Institute of Integral Studies. Kashani is the author of five books on media; Deconstructing the Mystique, (2005, 2009, Kendall/Hunt Press), Hollywood’s Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Studies (2010, Palgrave/MacMillan Press), Lost in Media: Ethics of Everyday Life (2013, Peter Lang Press) and Movies Change Lives: A Pedagogy of Humanistic Transformation (Peter Lang Press, 2016). Kashani is a subject matter expert and faculty for a number of universities in the United States, focusing his interdisciplinary scholarship and pedagogy on media and social justice.

    Month: March 2008

     THE PERILS OF PRO WRESTLING

    March 25, 2008July 17, 2017 Tony Kashani Leave a comment Articles

    Whenever I argue that the social impact of professional wrestling merits close examination, more than a few of my colleagues chuckle and call it a waste of time. They seem to posit that professional wrestling is not a social force and has very little impact in shaping young minds. I think otherwise. When, back in […]

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     IS ASTROLOGY A SCIENCE?

    March 22, 2008July 17, 2017 Tony Kashani Leave a comment Articles

    A while back, I went to an astrology seminar conducted by a self-proclaimed “historian” with a doctorate degree in psychology. He showed an awful lot of birth charts of many famous people, and made some interesting comparisons between their personalities and their impact on our history, etc. Well, these were all Western figures-except with the […]

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     USING CINEMA & COMBATING THE HYPERREAL

    March 12, 2008July 17, 2017 Tony Kashani Leave a comment Articles

    In utilizing cinema for social change it is crucial to recognize the hyperreality of today’s global audiovisual culture. The realm of the hyperreal (i.e., reality-based TV shows, Hollywood movies, Disneyland, TV commercials, and other excursions into ideal worlds) is more real than real, whereby the models, images, and codes of the hyperreal come to control […]

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