TY - BOOK AU - Trend,David TI - Cultural democracy: politics, media, new technology T2 - SUNY series, interruptions -- border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s SN - 0791433196 AV - HN65 .T7 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - Albany, NY PB - State University of New York Press KW - Democracy KW - United States KW - Politics and culture KW - Cultural conditions KW - Mass media and culture KW - nli KW - Mass media KW - Political aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-212) and index; 1. Culture and Democracy --; 2. What's in a Name? Beyond the Ideology of Left and Right --; 3. Movies, Histories, and the Politics of Utopia --; 4. Video Culture and National Identity --; 5. Fantasies of Power on the Information Superhighway --; 6. Problem Youth: Pedagogies of Representation --; 7. From Victim Aesthetics to Postmodern Citizenship --; 8. Toward a Radical Cultural Democracy N2 - Following the work of a range of public intellectuals like Stanley Aronowitz, Henry Giroux, bell hooks, Chantal Mouffe, and Cornel West, Cultural Democracy argues for a "radical democracy" capable of subverting traditional divisions of "left" and "right." In so doing, Trend suggests that solutions to contemporary cultural and political problems are not so far away as one might think. Their roots lie in the very democratic principles upon which the U.S. was founded, although many such principles need to be brought up to date and radicalized ER -