Culture industry / Heinz Steinert ; translated by Sally-Ann Spencer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinert, Heinz.

Standardized Title:

Kulturindustrie English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Popular culture.

Communication--Social aspects.

Communication.

Physical Description:

viii, 209 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Polity ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: the pleasures of criticism 1

1 Approaching culture industry: recommended equipment 7

Field notes I Why are you smiling, Leonardo? 16

Autonomy and mass deception - a case of Dialectic of Enlightenment 20

Field notes II The President as the bad guy - Clint Eastwood's Absolute Power 27

The structure of the 'Culture Industry' essay 30

Field notes III Heartburn and telephone sex 35

2 On method: look carefully, think thoroughly, and do not let yourself be taken in 39

Skoteinos, or how to read Adorno 39

Field notes IV Woody Allen, or the film critics' blindness to irony 46

Countertransference and analysing the working alliance 50

Field notes V Talk Radio - insulting the audience 60

3 The production of cultural commodities 63

Problems involved in producing cultural commodities 63

Fordist standardization: 'Uniform as a whole and in every part' 71

Field notes VI Exoticism and music 82

Working alliances in the cultural history of the twentieth century: bourgeois, modern, avant-garde and reflexive 87

Field notes VII The obsolescence of high culture's critique of society: the case of Carolee Schneemann 96

4 What is wrong with consensual entertainment? 99

Amusement - 'released from every restraint' or the 'prolongation of work'? 99

Field notes VIII Clowns, performers and shows - the not quite so respectable arts 104

Culture as advertising - advertising as potlatch 111

5 The conditions of belonging: the appropriation of the audience 119

'Ironically, man as a member of a species has been made a reality by the culture industry [monopoly capitalism]' 119

Field notes IX Can we find Hitler funny? 124

What can the public want? 126

Field notes X Total control of your life 138

6 Culture industry politics 142

Structural populism 142

Field notes XI Why Princess Diana's death was so moving 150

7 Intellectuals in the supermarket: perplexed 155

Professional and lay critics of media and society 155

Field Notes XII Woody Allen's Manhattan operettas 172.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [176]-197) and index.

ISBN:

0745626769

0745626777

OCLC:

50004302