A Comparative Study Of The Frankfurt School And The Birmingham School Of Mass Culture

Frankfurt School, Birmingham School of the main content of the theory of popular culture from the perspective of cultural comparative study compared and analyzed. Popular Culture Theory of the Frankfurt School is a model of the critical study of popular culture, the school of scholars believe that popular culture is the ideology of advanced industrial society, it has a deceptive, false and manipulative; Birmingham School of Mass Culture Theory purport defense of Popular Culture, he stressed that the production of popular culture, mass productivity and creativity, and certainly the dominant position of the public. A Comparative Study of Popular Culture Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School and the Birmingham School of Mass Culture Theory inspiration on the research and development of our popular culture, as well as our current cultural construction. The specific content of the papers are as follows:First, the study of popular culture, literature review, and outlines the theoretical and practical significance of this study.Second, both popular culture connotation, main content, as well as the positive significance of the theory and the negative impact of an overview of the analysis and interpretation. By way of comparison, in addition to the. difference between them, but also to identify both popular culture theories have in common, that is, the two factions the common Marxist theory origin and identification with the commercialization of popular culture.Again, the view of the nature of both the public compared to the Frankfurt School that the public is being deceived and manipulated, passive meet in a variety of false consciousness. Birmingham School believe that the general public is a positive initiative, Volkswagen creative symbolic boycott of their living space, and the public good at using symbols.Finally, the popular culture of the Frankfurt School and the Birmingham School of comparison, the Frankfurt School of popular culture as ideological tools, so it has the ideological function; Birmingham School pen, popular culture is not only not an ideological tool, nor the ruling class to impose the general public, but of mass from top to bottom to create, popular culture is not only the right to class and have no right class places of symbolic struggle, and popular culture and also creative.