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Radical Media

Rebellious Communication and Social Movements
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From dance and graffiti to video and the Internet and from satirical prints and street theatre to culture-jamming, subversive song, performance art and underground radio, this book is a comprehensive analysis of all radical media and movements.The first part of the book explores social and cultural theory in order to show that radical media should be a central part of our understanding of media in history. The second part provides an historical and international analysis of radical media to illustrate their centrality and diversity. This section also includes consideration of ultra-rightist media as a key contrast case. The final part provides detailed case studies of the anti-fascist media explosion of 1974-75 in Portugal, Italy's long-running radical media, and radio and access video in the USA, and illegal media in the dissolution of the former Soviet bloc dictatorships.
John Downing is Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the Univeristy of Texas, Austin. He is a co-editor of Questioning the Media (1990) and has contributed to the journals Media, Culture & Society and Discourse & Society
PART ONE: CONCEPTS - RADICAL MEDIA INTERSECT MEDIA THEORY Popular Culture, `Audiences' and Radical Media Power, Hegemony, Resistance Social Movements, the Public Sphere, Networks Community, Democracy, Dialogue and Radical Media Art, Aesthetics, Radical Media, Communication Radical Media Organization Two Models Religion, Ethnicity, the International Dimension Repressive Radical Media PART TWO: RADICAL MEDIA TAPESTRY: COMMUNICATIVE REBELLION IN HISTORY AND GLOBALLY Public Speech, Dance, Jokes and Song Graffiti and Dress Popular Theatre, Street Theatre, Performance Art and Culture Jamming The Press `Mind Bombs' Woodcuts, Satirical Prints, Flyers, Photomontage, Posters, Murals Radio Film and Video The Internet PART THREE: EXTENDED CASE STUDIES The Portuguese Explosion The Collapse of Dictatorship and Colonialism, 1974 - 75 Italy Three Decades of Radical Media Access Television and Grassroots Political Communication in the United States KPFA, Berkeley and Free Radio Berkeley Samizdat in the Former Soviet Bloc A Hexagon by Way of a Conclusion
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