CS350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Astral Media, Frankfurt School, Buzzfeed
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Frankfurt school (cid:862)do you ag(cid:396)ee with the f(cid:396)a(cid:374)kfu(cid:396)t (cid:272)hool o(cid:396) (cid:374)ot? (cid:863) Adorno and horkheimer: enlightenment mass deception = tyrannical and ideological, deceiving us, popular culture can be resistant, kings gesture = could get away with low-key jokes about the king because everyone will be laughing. Culture industry (creative industry today: by 1940s-50s whole industries standardized mass produced culture, the novel where they would be mass produced, affects creativity and its ideological. Fordism: mass production= standardized, thi(cid:374)gs a(cid:396)e(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)i(cid:395)ue, all for profit. If there is a resistant statement; it could be mass produced and consumed: assembly line charlie chaplin= humorous, but critical and political take (cid:862)duped(cid:863) = si(cid:373)plisti(cid:272) a(cid:374)d elitist. Andy warhol: studio= factory, works of art were about mass production and embraces it, beauty in celebrities drinking the same coke as you, (cid:373)akes us e(cid:395)ual (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause you (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)uy a (cid:271)ette(cid:396) (cid:272)oke.
