Sitcoms and the Culture Industry: In their discussion of “the culture industry” Adorno and Horkheimer suggest that “the culture industry replaces pain… with jovial denial. Its supreme law is that its consumers shall at no price be given what they desire: and in that very deprivation they must take their laughing satisfaction.” For this paper you ask, are Adorno and Horkheimer correct? To do so, your paper should analyze the plot of episode of funny television and compare and contrast Adorno and Horkheimer’s claims with two theorists covered during the term.
I attached below the reading for this topic and the lecture as well. We can not use any jokes that he used in the lecture or from the office or black mirror TV shows. Just confirm with me before you write what is the TV you will use to check if he went over it in class or not. please consider that this is a final paper, so please meet every requirement the teacher asked for