Integration and Subversion: The Dialectics of Mass Culture

Author: Zhao Yong
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This book conducts an in-depth examination of the contextual background of the Frankfurt School's theory of mass culture, and through case analyses of individual critical theorists from the Frankfurt School such as Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Leo Lowenthal, and Herbert Marcuse, argues that the Frankfurt School's theory of mass culture exists in two models (integration and subversion) and two sets of discourse (negativistic discourse and affirmative discourse). This book holds significant reference value for thinking about, analyzing, and researching Chinese mass culture.