Mass culture and cultural industry

My favorite subject in this semester is “Mass culture and cultural industry”. This subject is shared with cinema classmates. The professor is Felipe Espinosa, and the way he does classes it is based in the presentation of slides. He is very didactic.   

In “Mass culture and cultural industry” we talk about, like the name says, the implication and problems of the mass culture. We have to read a lot of theorists that talk about the central problem of the subject, like the Marxist theory, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, etc.

My favorite part of the subject was the part when we read about the critic theory. I like the Marxist vision of the theorists of the Frankfurt school a lot, and the critique they do to the historical materialism.

A thing that I don’t like about the subject is the mandatory making of weekly works about some aspects of the subject. The work consits, frequently, of three questions that are often very redundant between them.

But that thing is irrelevant in comparison to the interesting texts that we have to read, and the critic vision that they have with cultural and structural construction of capitalism.