Research Sources

"Films, Radio and Magazines make up a system which is uniform as a whole and in every part. Even the aesthetic activities of the political opposites are one in their enthusiastic obedience to the rhythm of the iron system. Movies and radio need no longer pretend to be art. The truth that they are just business its made into an ideology in order to justify the rubbish they deliberately produce."

Sources: 

LCA library) 

1 - Introducing Critical Theory, Stuart Sim (Totem Books 2001)

2 -  The New Industrial Revolution: Consumers, Globalisation and the End of Mass Production, Peter Marsh

(Yale University Press 2012)

3 - The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor Adorno on Mass Culture, Deborah Cook

(Rowman & Little field Publishers, Inc. 1996)

Google Books (preview) 

1- Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, John Storey 

(Pearson Education LTD 1997) 

Chapter 1: What is Cultural Theory

Link:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nOwjCQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=cultural+theory+and+popular+culture&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=cultural%20theory%20and%20popular%20culture&f=false

General Information on the ideas of popular culture^

2 - Cultural Theory: An Introduction, Philip Smith and Alexander Riley 

(Blackwell Publishing 2001)

Link:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WIf8xDBYKwQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=cultural+theory&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyjeWTl_3PAhWmIsAKHVO_AhwQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=cultural%20theory&f=false

Useful Information on cultural theory and also on the Frankfurt school

3 - Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts, Andrew Edgar and Peter Sedwick

(Routledge 2008)

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QbbV7KK-HcAC&pg=PR11&dq=cultural+theory&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZwMSimP3PAhXsCMAKHZ9PBrIQ6AEIUDAI#v=onepage&q=cultural%20theory&f=false

General and Specialist information on cultural theorists and the theory behind it 

Google Scholar 

1- Book : Cultural Theory and Popular Culture Third edition, John Storey 

(Pearson education LTD) 

(This guy keeps coming in handy) 

LINK: 

https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=jgav8surlTIC&oi=fnd&pg=PR10&dq=cultural+theory+and+popular+culture&ots=nWif3nW3LV&sig=x8vIv4VWtHHUBSOhCSGMVXdwE5E#v=onepage&q=cultural%20theory%20and%20popular%20culture&f=false

General Information on Karl Marx and Cultural Theory 

2 - Listening and Learning to Listen: Popular Culture, Cultural Theories and American Studies. George Lipsitz 

(The John Hopkins University Press 1990) 

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2713167?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

 Cultural Theory, exploring ideas and means 

3- Mass Communications Research and the Study Of Popular Culture, Elihu Katz 

University Of Pennsylvania 

Link: 

http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1168&context=asc_papers

Interesting look at cultural theory and pop culture through an educators eyes

Websites 

1- https://prezi.com/9mlmknmatj1z/critical-and-cultural-theories-of-mass-communication/

Transcript by Ian Kevelin Davies October 2015

2 - http://www.zeepedia.com/read.php?emergence_of_critical_cultural_theories_of_mass_communication_theories_of_communication&b=81&c=21 

Analytical Views of different types of cultural theories and the use of mass production 

3 - http://people.ucalgary.ca/~rseiler/hardt.htm

Interesting views on the Frankfurt School and Mass media

Jstor 

1 - The Werkbund: Design Theory and Mass Culture before the First World War by Frederic J. Schwartz
http://www.jstor.org/stable/991389?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Cultural&searchText=Theory&searchText=and&searchText=Mass&searchText=production&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DCultural%2BTheory%2Band%2BMass%2Bproduction%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

2 - Materials, Capital, Direct/Indirect Substitution, and Mass Balance Production Functions
Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3147065?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Cultural&searchText=Theory&searchText=and&searchText=Mass&searchText=production&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DCultural%2BTheory%2Band%2BMass%2Bproduction%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

3 -

Mass Customization: Implementing the Emerging Paradigm for Competitive Advantage
Suresh Kotha

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2486768?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Cultural&searchText=Theory&searchText=and&searchText=Mass&searchText=production&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DCultural%2BTheory%2Band%2BMass%2Bproduction%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Lecture 1

Lecture: Non Linear History of the Image 12/10/2016

My main takeaway from the lecture, is this image glorified for a reason? Or is it inherently what we've been taught and expected to feel from this certain image? Example's used were such as the Mona Lisa. Is this image special in any way? This is something that I connect with on an artistic way, having always been somewhat put down for drawing in a comic style rather than what the mainstream would consider "fine art"and having art teachers tell me that I should strive for this in particular. The question is always, why? Why does society have a tendency to gravitate towards this idea of what art should be?