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Baby Annie And Production Of Mass Culture

Posted on:2010-09-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D HuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360275994932Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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From the rise of Western Mass Culture in 30s-40s of 19th century, to the true rise and prosperity of it in China in 80s, until nowadays, Mass Culture has become a major cultural pattern in contemporary China, provide for the majority of Mass Culture consumers with a large number of and a wide range of consumer products.Living in the city today, people in all aspects of life which include clothing, feeding, living and traveling are affected by the impact of Mass Culture. Because of the differences between Mass Culture and all kinds of traditional cultural patterns in the past, the production process of Mass Culture is different from which of these patterns as well. Based on the commercialization, which is the most basic feature of Mass Culture, the ways of the production process of Mass Culture and mass production of industrial products have a lot of similarities. For example, Mass Culture has its own producers, has its own factors of production, has its production and its products.This article takes one influential representative of Mass Culture - Baby Annie's literary works as an example, with in-depth analysis of the production of Mass Culture to reveal the differences of the production of Mass Culture and traditional culture in the past, the similarities of the production of Mass Culture and industrialization products, as well as the most important point, the most fundamental difference of the production of Mass Culture and industrialization products.This most fundamental difference is that no matter how many commercial features Mass Culture have, which are in essence a form of culture, and its cultural nature cross in the production process of Mass Culture products from the beginning to the end. No matter how we analyze the problem of its production, this most fundamental characteristic can not be ignored.
Keywords/Search Tags:the production of Mass Culture, Baby Annie, commercial, cultural
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