Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Exile Discourse -- 2. Iranian Exilic Popular Culture -- 3. Structure and Political Economy of Exilic Television -- 4. The Exilic Television Genre and Its Textual Politics and Signifying Practices -- 5. Fetishization, Nostalgic Longing, and the Exilic National Imaginary -- 6. The Cultural Politics of Hybridity -- Table 1. Periodicals published in Los Angeles, 1980-92 -- Table 2. Regularly scheduled radio programs aired in Los Angeles, 1980-92 -- Table 3. Organizations sponsoring "newscasts" by telephone in Los Angeles -- Table 4. Feature fiction films made by Iranians in exile -- Table 5. Types of Iranian associations and examples -- Table 6. Societies and functions they have sponsored at UCLA, 1980-90 -- Table 7. Program profile, regularly scheduled Iranian TV programs in Los Angeles, 1981-92 -- Table 8. Broadcast schedule and program types: Iranian programs in Los Angeles, KSCI Channel 18 and cable TV channels, May 1992 -- Table 9. Iranian TV programs currently in tape syndication, May 1992 -- Table 10. Estimated program revenues from advertisements -- Table 11. KSCI-TV's airtime rate schedule (effective 1992): Cost in dollars per hour/half hour -- Table 12. Estimated cost of renting airtime for current Iranian programs -- Table 13. Producers' profile: Iranian TV programs in Los Angeles, 1981-82 -- Table 14. Frequency of viewing of Iranian internal religio-ethnic TV audiences (in %) -- Table 15. Viewing patterns of Iranian religio-ethnic audiences for videos by language (in %) -- Table 16. Iranian Armenian audience by age, education, and income -- Table 17. Iranian Baha'i audience by age, education, and income -- Table 18. Iranian Jewish audience by age, education, and income -- Table 19. Iranian Muslim audience by age, education, and income.

Table 20. Iranian internal ethnic audiences for Persian language video and television (by age) -- Table 21. KSCI-TV's "ethnic schedule" of programs (by language), 3/17/1992 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.