High and Mass Culture in America

2. Common tools of Mass culture include melodrama, burlesque, violent action, and _________.
4. Mass culture is differentiated from ______ culture in that it is not by the people, but manufactured by the culture industry.
8. Frankfurt School philosopher and critic; one of the founders of Critical Theory; he has his "thumbs down" to mass culture.
10. Supporters of mass culture argued that it was d________.
11. Examples of mass culture include cinema, rock n'roll, and _______ books.
13. The beginning of the high culture - mass culture opposition is historically situated in the mid-________ century.
14. Modernist high art placed high value on experimentation and ___________.
15. Describes the American preference or desire for its own over European culture.

1. Leo Lowenthal found evidence of cultural decline in popular biographies which went from emphasizing heroes of production to heroes of _________.
3. The breakdown of the high culture - mass culture divide was accelerated in the __________ period.
5. The major American avant-garde pop artist mentioned.
6. The fractured mode of production of the culture industry means that it resembles a traditional f________.
7. A possible reason why mass culture thrived so well in the US: The predominant place of the American __________.
9. Mass culture is historically associated with new t____________.
12. According to Kantian aesthetics, fine art is autonomous both from commerce and practical __________.