Radical Media : Rebellious Communication and Social Movements

by John D. H. Downing

• ISBN13: 9780803956995
• ISBN10: 0803956991
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-18
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

This is an entirely new edition of the author's 1984 study (originally published by South End Press) of radical media and movements. The first and second sections are original to this new edition. The first section explores social and cultural theory in order to argue that radical media should be a central part of our understanding of media in history. The second section weaves an historical and international tapestry of radical media to illustrate their centrality and diversity, 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. The section also includes consideration of ultra-rightist media as a key contrast case. The book's third section provides detailed case studies of the anti-fascist media explosion of 1974-75 in Portugal, Italy's long-running radical media, radio and access video in the USA, and illegal media in the dissolution of the former Soviet bloc dictatorships.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Acknowledgments	xiii
I. Concepts: Radical Media Intersect Media Theory	1	(100)
Popular Culture, Audiences, and Radical Media	3	(9)
Power, Hegemony, Resistance	12	(11)
Social Movements, the Public Sphere, Networks	23	(15)
Community, Democracy, Dialogue, and Radical Media	38	(18)
Art, Aesthetics, Radical Media, and Communication	56	(11)
Radical Media Organization: Two Models	67	(8)
Religion, Ethinicity, and the International Dimension	75	(13)
Repressive Radical Media	88	(9)
Conclusions	97	(4)
II. Radical Media Tapestry: Communicative Rebellion Historically and Globally	101	(134)
Public Speech, Dance, Jokes, and Song	105	(16)
Graffiti and Dress	121	(9)
Popular Theater, Street Theater, Performance Art, and Culture-Jamming	130	(13)
The Press	143	(15)
Mind Bombs: Woodcuts, Satirical Prints, Flyers, Photomontage, Posters, and Murals	158	(23)
Radio	181	(11)
Film and Video	192	(9)
Radical Internet Use	201	(34)
Tamara Villarreal Ford
Geneve Gil
III. Extended Case Studies	235	(161)
The Portuguese Explosion: The Collapse of Dictatorship and Colonialism, 1974-1975	237	(29)
Italy: Three Decades of Radical Media	266	(33)
Access Television and Grassroots Political Communication in the United States	299	(26)
Laura Stein
KPFA, Berkeley, and Free Radio Berkeley	325	(29)
Samizdat in the Former Soviet Bloc	354	(34)
A Hexagon by Way of a Conclusion	388	(8)
References	396	(26)
Index	422	(3)
About the Authors	425