Critisism And Reflection

The concept of popular culture of modem sense comes from the West.In this thesis,popular culture is a type of cultural or commercial commodity culture which formed and developed,basing on cultural industries and the mass media and technology.With the development of society and the progress of techology,popular culture has become China's most dynamic and the most influential cultural pattern in present chinese cultural structure.but also to be an important way of studying China's social and cultural transformation by scholars,the most valuable content of Frankfurt School's Critical Theory is the spirit of criticising and reflecting,it has valuable inspiration and lessons for reflecting the negative phenomenon in the process of modernization,resisting the expansion of material desires and the popularization of money worship,on the other hand,popular culture critisism Theory of the Frankfurt School has its specific context generation,which will directly affect the correct and profound level of studying and learning from popular culture critisism Theory of the Frankfurt School.Therefore,it is necessary for us to have a critical analysis and reflection of popular culture critisism theory of Frankfurt School.This thesis is divided into three chapters.In the first chapter,it mainly anal)sizes the social and historical background of popular culture critisism theory of the Frankfurt School.pointing out that Germany's fascist society and the U.S.monopoly capitalist consumer society after world war two are the two most typical history contexts,and anal)sizing the ideological origins of popular culture critisism theory of Frankfurt School.it can grasp and understand the basic spirit of popular culture critisism theory of the Frankfurt School broadly from three aspects,incuding critical spirit,Lukacs' materialized theory and Freud's analysis of spirit.In the second chapter,it has a full understanding of popular culture critisism theory of the Frankfurt School.Firstly, Anal)sizing the concept of popular culture;secondly,inflecting the basis of philosophy theory produced by popular culture critisism theory of Frankfurt School,pointing out the important influnce on forming of popular culture critisism theory of the Frankfurt School produced by tools rational criticism theory,ideology theory,cultural hegemony theory.Finally,discussing the basic content of popular culture critisism theory of Frankfurt School.Totally,Frankfurt School held a negative,passive critical attitude towards the popular culture.In the third chapter,this thesis describes the role of reference and learning held by popular culture critisism theory of Frankfurt School in our country's cultural studies and cultural criticism,in the light of the situation of present china's mass culture and popular culture critisism theory of the Frankfurt School's using in china.