Adorno on Popular Culture

by Robert W. Witkin

Overview

Robert W. Witkin unpacks Adorno's notoriously difficult critique of popular culture in an engaging and accessible style, looking first at the development of the overarching theories of authority, commodification and negative dialectics. He then goes on to consider Adorno's writing on specific aspects of popular culture such as radio, film and popular music.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415268257
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/03/2002
Series:	International Library of Sociology
Edition description:	First Routledge Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Cultural Nemesis 2. The theory of Pseudo-Culture 3. The Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Ring of the Niebelungen 4. The Decay of Aura and the Schema of Mass Culture 5. Star Power 6. Situating Music Socially 7. On Popular Music 8. Adorno's Radio Days 9. Film and Television 10. Woody Allen's Culture Industry 11. Walking a Critical Line Home

Editorial Reviews

'a highly misanthropic but very funny and true analysis of the power and effect of the mass media' Alain de Botton, Telegraph

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