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Seriality and the Culture Industry Seriality and the Culture Industry
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Digital- Era Popular Culture and the Spirit of Capitalism Digital- Era Popular Culture and the Spirit of Capitalism
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Digital Capitalism, Immaterial Labor, and Cultural Externalities Digital Capitalism, Immaterial Labor, and Cultural Externalities
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Comic Book Superheroes as Unfree Symbolic Commons Comic Book Superheroes as Unfree Symbolic Commons
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1 Seriality, Culture Industry, and Digital-Era Popular Culture
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Published:April 2022
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Abstract
This chapter situates the book’s understanding of seriality within a broader theory of commercial entertainment. To do so, it develops a new reading of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno’s theory of the culture industry that can account for the centrality of serial repetition and variation within capitalist cultural production. The chapter then maps central tenets of the ideology of engagement that orients much of commercial screen entertainment today. For this purpose, it reads Jenkins’s work on digital-era participatory culture against Boltanski and Chiapello’s study of The New Spirit of Capitalism. The chapter then proceeds with a discussion of recent conceptualizations of digital-era capitalism which, I argue, can offer a much-needed qualification for some of Jenkins’s claims about digital-era popular culture. The chapter ends by considering the relationship between superhero blockbusters’ enduring popularity and the technological infrastructure of the digital era.
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