English 2017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Product Placement, Culture Industry, Industrialisation

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2017
• Professor: Nigel Joseph

Document Summary

We should spend our lives searching for the best arts. That we are losing religion and high culture can replace this, humanity as a whole is moving this way. Can get the same tranquility from art like shakespeare that you get from religion: fr leaving. Only a few who are capable of unprompted, first-hand judgement that can appreciate high art that should be trusted to guide us. Mentions technology: cuts us off from other people. Films involve surrender, under conditions of hypnotic receptivity, to the cheapest emotions appeals, are associated with a compellingly vivid illusion of actual life. Adorno: trashy, formulaic, repetitive, film is overwhelming and makes you stupid from blocking your critical faculty from functions due to the sensory overload of film. Culture now impresses the same stamp on everything (sameness) Whole world made to pass through the filter of the culture industry: some forms are so overwhelming that they blur lines between fantasy and reality.