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Unlike Gramsci, most of the Frankfurt School managed to escape fascist persecution by moving to the United States. These Marxists also pointed to how culture could snuff out resistance, but were more about ideas. They theorized that the culture industry (as in movies, books, TV, and whatnot) helped bolster capitalism by making the population complacent and docile. Their critical theory analyzed popular media for how it reinforced societal structures. Historians who use this method of critique, tend to be looking at how a culture is affected by media.
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James M. Banner, _The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History_ (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021), audiobook. amzn.to/3y0Y8er
Peter Gunn, _History and Cultural Theory_ (Oxon, UK: Pearson Education Limited, 2006). amzn.to/2uWmK9F
Peter Charles Hoffer, _Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin_ (New York: Public Affairs, 2004). amzn.to/2OQJh0m
Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza, eds., _A Companion to Western Historical Thought_ (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2002). amzn.to/2LhuzSf
William H. Sewell, _Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation_ (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005). amzn.to/2ZvH5Cs
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Unlike Gramsci, most of the Frankfurt School managed to escape fascist persecution by moving to the United States. These Marxists also pointed to how culture could snuff out resistance, but were more about ideas. They theorized that the culture industry (as in movies, books, TV, and whatnot) helped bolster capitalism by making the population complacent and docile. Their critical theory analyzed popular media for how it reinforced societal structures. Historians who use this method of critique, tend to be looking at how a culture is affected by media.
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*Bibliography*
James M. Banner, _The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History_ (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021), audiobook. amzn.to/3y0Y8er
Peter Gunn, _History and Cultural Theory_ (Oxon, UK: Pearson Education Limited, 2006). amzn.to/2uWmK9F
Peter Charles Hoffer, _Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin_ (New York: Public Affairs, 2004). amzn.to/2OQJh0m
Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza, eds., _A Companion to Western Historical Thought_ (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2002). amzn.to/2LhuzSf
William H. Sewell, _Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation_ (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005). amzn.to/2ZvH5Cs
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