The culture industry : selected essays on mass culture / Theodor W. Adorno ; edited and with an introduction by J.M. Bernstein.

Author
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2015]
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Routledge classics. [More in this series]
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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. He argued that the culture industry commodified and standardised all art. In turn this suffocated individuality and destroyed critical thinking. At the time, Adorno was accused by his many detractors of everything from overreaction to deranged hysteria. In today's world, where even the least cynical of consumers is aware of the influence of the media, Adorno's work takes on a more immediate significance.
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"First published in Routledge Classics 2001 by Routledge, first published 1991 by Routledge."
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Contents
  • On the fetish character in music and the regression of listening
  • The schema of mass culture
  • Culture industry reconsidered
  • Culture and administration
  • Freudian theory and the pattern of fascist propaganda
  • How to look at television
  • Transparencies on film
  • Free time
  • Resignation.
ISBN
  • 1-000-15872-1
  • 1-00-307129-5
  • 1-003-07129-5
  • 1-000-10741-8
OCLC
1183050480
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