Adorno's view on television was that it presents conventional values in a way that is easily digested by the masses, that there is a formula that producers follow in order to make their shows accepted and viewed en masse but also put into categories/genres that follow their own individual formulas so as to give the viewer and idea/ preconception about which they are about to see, 'we are all familiar with the division of television content into various classes, such as light comedy, westerns, mysteries, so-called sophisticated plays, and others. These types have developed into formulas which, to a certain degree, pre-establish the attituinal pattern of the spectator before he is confronted with any specific content and which largely determines the way in which any specific content is being perceived.' (Adorno, 1954)
Adorno explains that the reason for this formulaic approach to making television programs is so that the audience does not have to think about what they watching too much, making it easily digestible - and it can be argued that most mainstream film and animation that is currently being produced still follow this approach, and this is to be expected of a capitalist society wanting to make the most money from a production as possible. If the content was challenging or jarring of peoples preconceived notions the production is inherently bound not to do so well in the mainstream.
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