Tocqueville et Hollywood

From the opposition between egalitarian democracy and elitist aristocracy, Tocqueville seems to have anticipated the formation and development of mass culture. Incarnating mainly during the twentieth century in Hollywood, it has often been criticized in France and continues to be so sometimes today, as opposed to a cinema of artistic authors, French and European, which is valued. Nevertheless, this cliché must be fought, because it does not allow us to understand the contradiction inherent in mass culture, a contradiction that the Tocquevillian concept of egalitarianism allows, on the contrary, to shed light on, while explaining how the definition of art, inherited from the nineteenth century, was transformed by American democracy