{"id":9,"date":"2007-02-04T22:30:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T03:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/02\/04\/adorno-and-what-is-unique\/"},"modified":"2007-02-04T22:30:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T03:30:55","slug":"adorno-and-what-is-unique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/02\/04\/adorno-and-what-is-unique\/","title":{"rendered":"Adorno and What is unique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last semester in my Culture, Context and Compositon class we read an essay by Adorno and the Culture Industry.\u00c2\u00a0 In his many ramblings regarding the making of a movie, Adorno states that there is nothing unique in a movie.\u00c2\u00a0 He says that everything new or novel, such as the way a lock of hair falls across the forehead of an actess, gets studied and copied relentlessly until it eventually becomes part of the &#8220;formula.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 In this way, the culture industry reduces film, and all forms of art (except Avante Garde) to an equation that solves the problem.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem as Adorno sees it, is society&#8217;s endless need for commodities-even films.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This leaves me wondering if Adorno is right about films as byproducts of capitalism.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Are there any unique movies made\u00c2\u00a0solely for the artistic expression, or are they simply made to satisfy the\u00c2\u00a0demands of a capitalistic society?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0If so, wouldn&#8217;t genre films\u00c2\u00a0lend credence to Adorno&#8217;s viewpoints?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last semester in my Culture, Context and Compositon class we read an essay by Adorno and the Culture Industry.\u00c2\u00a0 In his many ramblings regarding the making of a movie, Adorno states that there is nothing unique in a movie.\u00c2\u00a0 He says that everything new or novel, such as the way a lock of hair falls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adorno","category-genre-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}