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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"culture industry"”.
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Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry
… I examine the Electronic Dance Music (EDM) subculture, since its inception in the late 80s as a deviant subculture. Previous studies of raves and other music subcultures focus almost exclusively on the role of popularity in transforming the subculture. In this research, I found, in the case of …
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Digital Marketing and the Culture Industry: The Ethics of Big Data
… decade (to comprise about nine percent of the industry at the close of 2019), we have witnessed leaps now to over twenty percent in just the last year. Scott Galloway marks the pandemic as an accelerant not just of digital marketing posting a year of growth for each month of quarantine but as …
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Culture Industry Policy in China and the United States: A Comparative Analysis
It is a consensus that culture industry is assuming a more important economic development function in most countries of the world today. As a result of this consensus, the purpose of this paper is to investigate, through a comparative analysis, how China can improve its existing public policies to …
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Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy
… fashion for pleasure dairies in terms of English culture and attitudes of the era. It explores the cultural iconology of the ornamental pleasure dairy in England and its appropriation into the landscape parks of the elite. Ornamental dairies held significant ideological associations that were …
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Addressing the gap in the arts and culture industry in Dubai problems and solutions
… to address effectively the gap in the Arts and Culture in Dubai, a city that has prospered so well economically and financially in recent decades. Therefore, my focus is on those activities and events relating to literature, the visual arts, music, theatre and film - all reflecting the cultural …
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Postures
… and other visual reflections of our present culture industry, are all elements that I address in my work. It is with these ideas in mind that I construct visual fields where disparate forms and images coexist, forming new narratives aside from their individual isolated implications; …
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Irish Pop Music in a Global Context
… on the topic of the music section of the culture industry in its present form. In Ireland today it is very hard for people not to have heard of some of the bands, which are going to be examined in this thesis because we hear so much about them in the media and because they are Irish we are …
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The evolution of jazz in Britain c. 1880-1927: antecedents, processes and developments
… of the 'jazz age', modernism and the 'culture industry' as theoretical constructs and detailed study of dance music on the BBC and jazz in the underworld of London. The thesis falls into two parts, the first provides historical and theoretical perspectives on the topic, and the second …
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Stylizing, Commodifying, and Disciplining Real Bodies: An Examination of WWE Wrestling
… and discipline in contemporary popular culture and media.</p> <p>I use three approaches in this study. First, I apply the theory of culture industry, developed by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, to understand WWE wrestling. I examine how the WWE thoroughly stylizes its products to …
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A Marxist analysis of an editorial column as a site of struggle for meaning
… critics, the collective operations of the culture industry have worked to destroy the revolutionary potential of the working class. In a resistant textual reading and content analysis utilizing Gramsci's theory of hegemony, this study looks at how a newspaper editorial fatalizes readers …
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Cultural Power and Utopianism in Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom and M.T. Anderson's Feed
… the excessive consumption associated with the culture such a system creates. However, these two novels explore postmodern consumer culture from different perspectives. Prom functions as a utopian, revisionist fairy tale in which the consequences of rampant consumerism are combated through …
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Imaginaries of the Asian modern
… and as formats for re-making within the native culture industry. In this paper, I examine the program Hana Yori Dango, a Japanese manga turned television program that has been produced in Taiwan, Japan, and recently Korea. In particular, the Korean adaptation called Boys over Flowers, which …
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Listen Like This: Audiovisual Argument in Rockumentary
… relation to stardom, authenticity, fandom, the culture industry, and the music(ians) these films represent. My introduction argues that rockumentaries operate according to what I call the <em>offstage pattern</em>, a dialectical structure in which onstage and offstage spaces constitute one …
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THE KOREAN WAVE AS A LOCALIZING PROCESS: NATION AS A GLOBAL ACTOR IN CULTURAL PRODUCTION
… the transnational expansion of Korean popular culture through creating trans-local hybridization in popular content and intra-regional connections in the production system. This research focused on how three agencies – the government, public broadcasting, and the culture industry – have …
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A Part of it All. (Original writing);
… my encounters with celebrity, fame, and the culture industry. It is intensely autobiographical. Through writing about various critical moments in my life as a writer/producer of theatrical movies, I interpret my obsession with becoming a part of the motion picture and television industries. …
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How Hollywood Stole My Identity: African American Representation in the films Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Get Out
… identity, as well as within the framework of a culture industry. The second chapter explores the transition from Old Hollywood to New Hollywood, embodied in the emergence of Sidney Poitier as a major star in the film acting world. Poitier’s character in the film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner …
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Pity Those Who Live Without Love: The Function of Love in Harry Potter
… an analysis of the relentless marketing of the culture industry. Coupled together, the aforementioned analyses sufficiently explain the initial success of Rowling’s series. However, the only way to understand the unflagging popularity of Harry Potter is to elucidate the emotional adoration that …
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Roberto Valcárcel: Renaming Repression and Rehearsing Liberation in Contemporary Bolivian Art
… (sexist and genital oriented) and capitalism’s culture industry. Chapter Two discusses artworks where the intentional construction of open meaning challenges the norm of a univocal creation and consumption of art. Chapter Three studies some of Valcárcel’s humorous identities in contrast with the …
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Aesthetic Redemption: Psychedelia, Film, and Walter Benjamin’s Sensory Revolution
… overshadowed by Theodor Adorno’s theory of the culture industry, we conclude that Walter Benjamin’s revolutionary redemptive aesthetic theory is just as valid today as when it was produced in the first half of the twentieth century. That being said, the artistic form which revolutionary art must …
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Walking in Late Capitalism - Dialectic of Aestheticization and Commodification
… and out of the manipulating products of the culture industry in order to create art that offers room for imagination -- the source of social change.
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