CS251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Leni Riefenstahl, Situationist International, Mass Society
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Schiller: the historical argument, put forward most famously by communication scholar. In their classic essay on the culture industry, horkheimer and adorno set up a contrast between mass entertainment and fine art. In this distinction of high and low culture, they criticize the culture industry for generating images that are nothing more than style and propaganda for industrial capitalism, reproducing the status quo and obeying the dominant social order. The homogenization of culture: the homogenization of culture was a central aspect of the frankfurt school"s critique, in particular the way in which the industries that produce culture shun innovation in favor of standardized products. Nationalism: media can affirm national sentiment and offer a sense of national connection. In his highly influential 1983 analysis of nationalism, imagined communities, benedict. It was an attack in a symbolic manner. It is always enacted across people and groups in complex, shifting, and uneven dynamics.
