"The term culture industry (German: Kulturindustrie) was coined by the critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903\u20131969) and Max Horkheimer (1895\u20131973), and was presented as critical vocabulary in the chapter \"The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception\", of the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), wherein they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods \u2014 films, radio programmes, magazines, etc."@en .