Difference between popular culture and mass culture
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The distinction between these two terms tells the history and development of how popular/mass culture has been viewed and analysed in the social- and human sciences - and how critical the analysists were of the described.
The old marxist cultural critics (e.g. Adorno/Horkheimer/The Frankfurt-school) sawmass culture as a capitalist invention, where the market forces overtook the cultural sphere, and produced mindless mass-produced culture with monetary aims. (see Adorno og Horkheimer – The culture industry).
Culture became a way to make money, and the production of the cultural products was moved from autentic creators to big businesses marketing mass culture.
They saw, that the public were getting used to cultural products which were increasingly similar and mass produced (one could argue, that the same dynamic is alive today, if you look at Marvels Superhero-franchise)
They saw, that the mass-culture were threatening not just autentic folk culture, which they believed told and embodied the life and struggles of the working classes, but also the fine arts (high culture).
The saw, that classic novels were being mangled by being adapted to the logic of cinema - and mass-media. The new media changed the classics, and with capitalist interrests backing the production, they also changed the underlying ideology of the book.
The old marxist cultural critics (e.g. Adorno/Horkheimer/The Frankfurt-school) sawmass culture as a capitalist invention, where the market forces overtook the cultural sphere, and produced mindless mass-produced culture with monetary aims. (see Adorno og Horkheimer – The culture industry).
Culture became a way to make money, and the production of the cultural products was moved from autentic creators to big businesses marketing mass culture.
They saw, that the public were getting used to cultural products which were increasingly similar and mass produced (one could argue, that the same dynamic is alive today, if you look at Marvels Superhero-franchise)
They saw, that the mass-culture were threatening not just autentic folk culture, which they believed told and embodied the life and struggles of the working classes, but also the fine arts (high culture).
The saw, that classic novels were being mangled by being adapted to the logic of cinema - and mass-media. The new media changed the classics, and with capitalist interrests backing the production, they also changed the underlying ideology of the book.
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What is rapidly changing, however, is the methods for which mass culture is produced, and popular culture is consumed. That's the difference right there. Mass culture is something that is produced and popular culture that is consumed
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