Module 4 : Culture Industries, Cultural Forms

Lecture 1 : The Culture Industry


Questions

1.  What are the chief arguments of Horkheimer and Adorno regarding the culture industry?

2.  What effect does standardization have on the masses?

3.  What effect does mechanization have on leisure?

4.  The culture industry predetermines our ideologies and consequently, our actions, our decisions and cultural practices. Discuss.

5.  How may we critique the arguments of the culture industry school of critics?