TY - BOOK AU - Adorno, Theodor W AU - Bernstein, J. M. TI - The culture industry : selected essays on mass culture SN - 9780415253802 U1 - 306.40904 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Routledge N2 - The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture industry commodified and standardise ER -