Based on Wikipedia it is also called cultural or art industries that is a group of companies and institutions whose primary activity is the production of mass culture and mass based on the constant repetition of some basic patterns which show a series of situations and models unrealistic and inaccessible for the vast majority of cases, with a profit-making.
Can be regarded as means of cultural production:
- TV
- Radio
- Newspapers and magazines
- The film – which becomes an “art” that dominates the uniformity and predictability (cliché)
- Music Business
- Publishers
- Drama
- Dance
- Videogames (recently accepted on March 25 2009), etc..
All these are made looking at the same time increasing the consumption of cultural artifacts, social habits change, educate, inform and ultimately transform society. Thus, any cultural object is considered a cultural product with an ethical value and aesthetic value, from which the targets its offering through the laws of supply and demand. Thus, we see the “outline” of the culture industry that preceded the market value of quality cultural products. The term cultural industries was first used by theorists of the Frankfurt School: Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer in the book Dialektik der Aufklärung (Dialética the illustration) written in 1944, a time when the culture no longer needs to be justified socially.
In this book, Horkheimer and Adorno elaborate on the reification of culture through industrial processes. Assume that the economy system is a concentrated market in which the culture industry is a business which, in turn, reaffirms the system itself, so that resources end up being technological resources of domination over the receiver (Technocracy).
Under this system, most of the structural needs of modern society find their satisfaction in the mass culture. According Zallo Cultural Industries is “a set of segments, segments and ancillary activities in production and distribution of industrial goods with symbolic content, designed by a creative, organized by a capital that is valued and intended ultimately to the consumer markets with a role of social and ideological reproduction.
According to King and others, cultural industries are those that cover the creation and production of goods and services with intangible cultural content. The goods and services which are integrated lifestyles, values, ideas, and that for purposes of a regulation requiring protection of copyright.
Ultimately, some of these authors as the culture industry are seen as a repressor of the instincts and individuality of people and a tool that allows and encourages the perpetuation of the capitalist system.