The Frankfurt School's critical theory on mass culture and its evaluation

The Frankfurt School's mass culture critical theory proves to be the most radical and severe one among the western mass culture critical theories.Judging by the essential characteristics of culture and art activities,they strongly reproached the alienated phenomenon of culture and art in the developed societies,criticized it for its being indifferent,commodity-like,ideologically functional.We should analyze mass culture critical theory dialectically by finding out both its rationality and defects so as to make it a theoretical reference for the development of the cause of culture and art in China's industrialization,marketization.