{"product_id":"culture-industry-hardback-9780745626765","title":"Culture Industry (Hardback) 9780745626765","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCulture Industry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHeinz Steinert (Author), Sally-Ann Spencer (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745626765, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 January 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.445 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Adorno and Horkheimer’s analysis of the cultural industry remains an important model for understanding contemporary media culture. Heinz Steinert provides an excellent presentation of Adorno and Horkheimer’s perspectives on media culture and useful instructions on how to read their text and the products of culture industry, helping to enable his readers to become cultural critics of contemporary culture and theoretical discourse.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eDouglas Kellner, University of California at Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Understanding \"culture industry\" is central to both critical theory and contemporary public life. Heinz Steinert's account is both the best introduction to the subject and an important update for a new era. It should be read widely.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eCraig Calhoun, New York University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe term ‘culture industry’ has been a key reference point in the critical literature on culture and the media ever since the classic chapter in Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, yet until now there has been little attempt to update the analysis for the present day. In this innovative new book, Heinz Steinert applies the concept of culture industry to contemporary cultural forms and demonstrates its relevance for the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnravelling Horkheimer and Adorno’s complex prose, Steinert sets out to explain precisely what is meant by the term ‘culture industry’. Writing in a clear and engaging style, he provides an accessible exposition of the key themes and concepts. This close textual analysis is combined with wide-ranging case studies showing how the concept of culture industry can be used to approach more recent cultural phenomena. Examining contemporary film, pop music and art, as well as dating agencies and the paparazzi, Steinert reveals the ways in which culture is commodified today.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is an original book that provides a fresh critical perspective on culture and the media. It will be essential reading for students of media and cultural studies, sociology and of the humanities in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the pleasures of criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: Approaching culture industry: recommended equipment\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTools 1: The text: Horkheimer and Adorno’s ‘Culture Industry’ of 1944\/1947.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTools II: Cultural experience: analysing the products of culture industry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTools III: Reflexivity: writing field notes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField notes I: Why are you smiling, Leonardo?\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutonomy and mass deception – a case of Dialectic of Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField notes II: The President as the bad guy – Clint Eastwood’s ‘absolute power'\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe structure of the ‘Culture Industry’ essay.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField notes III: Heartburn and Telephone Sex\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: On method: look carefully, think thoroughly, and do not let yourself be taken in.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSkoteinos, or how to read Adorno.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTexts that do not need readers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthoritarian realism versus reflexive dialectics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField notes IV: Woody Allen, or the film critics’ blindness to irony\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCountertransference and analysing the working alliance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe everyday and the reflexive approach to texts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalysing the working alliance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to conduct a thorough and skilful interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField notes V: Talk Radio – insulting the audience\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: The production of cultural commodities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems involved in producing cultural commodities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFordist standardization: ‘Uniform as a whole and in every part.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFalse identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReality doubled.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFordist cultural commodities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganized markets – organized production.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDevelopments in the mode of production.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField notes VI: Exoticism and Music.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking alliances in the cultural history of the twentieth century: bourgeois, modern, avant-garde and reflexive.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe development of reflexivity in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField notes VII: The obsolescence of high culture’s critique of society: the case of Carolee Schneemann\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: What is wrong with consensual entertainment?.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmusement – ‘released from every restraint’ or the ‘prolongation of work’?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField notes VIII: Clowns, performers and shows – the not quite so respectable arts\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture as advertising – advertising as potlatch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField Notes IX: Ahlers Collection on Tour: The Art Event\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: The conditions of belonging: the appropriation of the audience\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Ironically, man as a member of a species has been made a reality by the culture industry [monopoly capitalism]’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField notes X: Can we find Hitler funny?\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat can the public want?.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘It’s good to see you here in such numbers tonight!’.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCulture industry’s impact on consumers.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalysing ‘the audience’ from the audience’s perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField notes XI: Total control of your life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: Culture industry politics\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructural populism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField notes XII: Why Princess Diana’s death was so moving\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7: Intellectuals in the supermarket: perplexed\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessional and lay critics of media and society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrong television cannot be viewed rightly.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial criticism and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical theory in enhanced culture industry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField Notes XIII: Woody Allen’s Manhattan Operettas\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect bibliography of works by Adorno and Horkheimer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand 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