Definition and characteristics of cultural industry

"Cultural industry" is a concept initiated by Adorno and Hawke Hamo in Dialectics of Enlightenment (1947). They particularly emphasized: "The cultural industry must be strictly separated from mass culture. The cultural industry casts old familiar things into new characteristics.

In its branches, those products that are suitable for mass consumption and those that largely determine consumption characteristics are produced more or less as planned. Some branches have the same structure, or at least communicate with each other. They are placed in a system, and there is almost no difference. All this is possible through technical means and centralization of economy and management. "

It should be said that the large-scale development of the cultural industry makes the aesthetic commodity attribute obvious, and makes the aesthetic production and consumption show a large-scale effect.

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The contents of China culture and related industries include:

1. Production activities of cultural products (including goods and services) that directly meet people's spiritual needs, such as creation, manufacture, dissemination and display with culture as the core content;

2 auxiliary production activities necessary for the production of cultural products;

3. Production activities (including manufacturing and sales) of cultural products as material carriers or production (use, dissemination and display) tools;

Production activities of special equipment needed for the production of cultural products (including manufacturing and sales).

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