TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adorno,Theodor W.
AU  - Bernstein,J.M
TI  - The culture industry: selected essays on mass culture 
SN  - 0415255341
AV  - CB427 .A33 2001
U1  - 306.4/09/04 AD.C 2001 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Mass society
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - 1950-
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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
N2  - "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; The Culture Industry is an unrivaled indictment of the banality of mass culture."--Jacket
ER  -