The Culture Industries Flashcards
1
Q
Defamiliarization
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- Taking something familiar to us and making it unfamiliar to us (Viktor Shklovsky)
- defamiliarization is absent in mainstream media
2
Q
“That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art.”
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Walter Benjamin
3
Q
Economic Determinism
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economic relationships are the foundation on which all other social and political relationships are built.
4
Q
Aura
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Awe and reverence experienced in the presence of a unique work of art
- Cult Value - Exhibition Value - Withers with reproduction of art
5
Q
Cult Value
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Status in magic and rituals
6
Q
Exhibition Value
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Content/information of a piece
7
Q
Adorno & Horkheimer
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Culture Industry
- similar to Marxism (base/superstructure) - part of Frankfurt School
