A selection of the author's essays on culture, which discusses such topics as television and the patterns of mass culture, the culture industry, the schema of mass culture, cultural administration, and culture and the theory of Fascist propaganda. There is no work in the field of cultural studies more emphatic.
The Culture Industry is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture. Excerpt The contentious arguments surrounding the idea of an affirmative postmodernist culture have brought with them a persistent theoretical depreciation of the claims of high modernist art as well as a positive reevaluation of the character and potentialities of popular (mass) culture.
The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture. Theodor W. Adorno (ed.) Routledge (1991) Abstract This book is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture - Adorno's finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights. Keywords Culture Popular culture: Categories.
The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture.