大众文化与文化产业--批判理论的批判与中国语境的规范

大众文化的崛起与文化产业的兴盛带来了许多理论话题与现实问题。以法兰克福学派为代表的、带有鲜明文化革命色彩的传统批判理论曾盛极一时 ,是伯明翰学派与后现代主义诸家为大众文化批评带来的反拨和突破使其步入了多元共存的文化“后革命”时代。西方大众文化理论的先后引进 ,刺激了中国大众文化批评的开展 ,也能解决一部分中国的大众文化现实问题 ;但要警惕和防止以“他者”的文化眼光来遮蔽中国本土的问题情境 ,或把西方社会的文化问题硬性移植到中国而变成“假想敌”。

Mass Culture and the Industry of Culture--Critique of Cultural Theory and Standard of China's Context

There should be no doubt that culture is an industry. The mass culture specifically refers to the cultural products produced by the industry of culture since the twentieth century, such as films, advertisements, popular music, common novels, and TV programs. The industry of culture can hardly be detached from the mass culture. So all the disadvantages of the industry of culture, the vulgar mediocre content and the curry favor with popularity, in particular, are likely to be the problems of mass culture. Though with its fundamental shortcomings, mass culture, because of the existence of its historical rationalization, can not be got rid of by force. People can only keep an attitude of cultural criticism toward the mass culture.