Frankfurt School's Critical Theory Of Mass Culture And Its Chinese Context

With the development of market economy,people meet the material life at the same time,the urgent need to meet their own spiritual and cultural needs.Popular culture with the development of market economy came into being,its influence has been deep into all areas of people's lives.How to understand China's popular culture,the correct understanding the problems of cultural construction,has become the urgent task in the current development.In the study of popular culture in many schools,there is no doubt that the Frankfurt School is the most critical.It pointed out the problems in the popular culture,analyzed the many characteristics of the development of mass culture,and provided the development ideas for the construction of popular culture in our country.This paper chooses the viewpoints of the early representative of the Frankfurt School 's popular culture criticism theory,based on the viewpoints of Horkheimer,Adorno and Marcuse.First,we analyze the real and theoretical contexts of popular culture,explore their source of thought,and explain their influence on the researchers of early Frankfurt School of popular culture.Secondly,it analyzes the concrete contents of the critical theory of Frankfurt School's popular culture,clarifies the concept of popular culture and expounds its characteristics.Finally,it shows the relationship between the Frankfurt School's critical theory of culture and the development of Chinese popular culture,and discusses its influence on the construction of popular culture in China.Clarify its adaptability in the popular culture of China,and draw the inspiration of the study of Chinese popular culture.The prosperity of culture is inseparable from the development of economy.The mass culture enriches people's life and carries some problems.The critical theory of mass culture of Frank school has a revelation to the development of popular culture in our country.Only the correct handling of cultural problems,so that we can correctly understand the mass culture,in order to achieve the economic and cultural development.