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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 2011

     CORPORATISM & TV JOURNALISM

    March 30, 2011July 17, 2017 Tony Kashani Leave a comment Articles

    There is a fallacious claim made by many a corporate TV journalist that he or she is in the business of seeking the truth to the best of his or her ability. Moreover, we are told that after careful fact checking and deliberation with his or her colleagues, this “best version of truth” is presented […]

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     SOME NOTES ON ETHICS

    March 13, 2011July 17, 2017 Tony Kashani Leave a comment Articles

    1. Ethics is an important branch of philosophy. Ethics is part and parcel to Moral Philosophy. This type of philosophy is concerned with questions such as following: What should we do? How should we organize society? What is right? How should we understand the idea of justice? On what basis can we choose between different […]

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     WHAT IS POETRY?

    March 5, 2011July 17, 2017 Tony Kashani Leave a comment Articles

    Poetry saves us when prose fails us Poetry is success at communicative action Poetry is democratic Poetry is egalitarian Poetry is poetic Poetry is liquid Poetry is soul making Poetry reveals the truth about the other That the other is the self and the self is the other unmasked Poetry is passion of existentialist living

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     THE AMAZING 1970s IN AMERICAN CINEMA

    March 2, 2011July 17, 2017 Tony Kashani Leave a comment Articles

    The Amazing 1970s The prolific period from the tail end of 1960s to the end of 1970s, which I will call the 1970s, is an anomaly in mainstream American cinema. Partly due to the cultural success of television, bringing realism to American living rooms, the financial success of films like Easy Rider (1969) and Arthur Penn’s […]

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