Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Nazi Propaganda
4 Mar 2020
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Political economy of media deals with the relation between power (politics), wealth (economics) and media. How all these factors a ect the content of media. Corporate political economy is concerned with issues of ownership, organization, production, advertising and labour to gure out how to make bigger pro ts, Critical political economy is concerned with all the same issues to but with the aim of reform e. g. reduce powers of corporate media vis a vis social movements or even replacing capitalism by another system. Living in frankfort during rise of nazism. Flee to u. s work for u. s war e ort. But also critical of the u. s culture. See similarities between u. s commercial entertainment and nazi propaganda. Culture is becoming a commodity - good that is made primarily in order to make money. Movie industry big studios are similar to car assembly lines. Standardized products, repeatable plots, recycled stars, systematic, high- technology, rationalized production methods.
