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050 0 0 _aCB427
_b.A33 2001
082 0 0 _a306.4/09/04 AD.C 2001
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_b02381
100 1 _aAdorno, Theodor W.,
_d1903-1969
245 1 4 _aThe culture industry :
_bselected essays on mass culture /
_cTheodor W. Adorno ; edited and with an introduction by J.M. Bernstein
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2001
300 _aviii, 210 pages ;
_c21 cm
440 _pRoutledge classics
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes
505 0 _aOn 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
520 1 _a"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
520 8 _aThe Culture Industry is an unrivaled indictment of the banality of mass culture."--Jacket
650 0 _aPopular culture
_xHistory
_y20th century
650 0 _aMass society
_xHistory
_y20th century
650 0 _aMass media
_xSocial aspects
_xHistory
_y20th century
650 0 _aCivilization, Modern
_y1950-
650 0 _aPostmodernism
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700 1 _aBernstein, J. M
830 0 _aRoutledge classics
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