This is the topic for my Media Theory essay wherein I will explore Adorno and Horkheimer's assertions established in "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception." Using this chapter as a foundation for contemporary theory, I will exaine how other theorists respond to the arguments presented by the two theorists and how the theories that emerge from The Dialectic of Enlightenment chapter are manifested in Los Angeles as a urban and cultural space.



