Visual propaganda at a crossroads. New techniques at Iran's Vali Asr billboard

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1472586X.2021.1984292" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1472586X.2021.1984292</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2021.1984292" target="_blank" >10.1080/1472586X.2021.1984292</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Visual propaganda at a crossroads. New techniques at Iran's Vali Asr billboard

Original language description

Located at one of Iran’s busiest intersections, the Vali Asr billboard has been a key venue for projecting and promoting the regime messaging of the Islamic Republic since 2015. With its unique ability to frequently change its images, unlike the more traditional painted murals populating Iran’s urban landscape, the Vali Asr billboard has the capacity to convey a wide-range of regime messages tailor-made for a variety of domestic and international events, whether foreseen or unforeseen, from national holidays to the outbreak of Covid-19. This article assesses how the Vali Asr billboard’s unique features and design style allow it to present a mix of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ propaganda and succeed in attracting public engagement with its images. Through a close analysis of the assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Qassem Suleimani (d. 2020), a series of murals unveiled during the holy month of Muharram in 2020, and a controversy around the 2018 World Cup, the article argues that the Vali Asr billboard is a unique communicative medium and potent tool for regime cultural producers in Iran’s twenty-first century media landscape.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50900 - Other social sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Visual Studies

ISSN

1472-5878

e-ISSN

1472-586X

Volume of the periodical

36

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4-5

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

476-490

UT code for WoS article

000703845900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85116481412