Adorno and Critical Perspectives on the Culture Industry and Film

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Adorno's theory of the culture industry constitutes one of the most comprehensive critical perspectives on the mass media in contemporary society. He sees film as a component of the culture industry. Adorno develops the pessimism about modern culture and film, displaying the aspects of reification in the discussion of the culture industry. For him,reification is ultimately considered "identifying thought" in order to conform to the status quo. By reification, he discloses the transformation of culture into the industrial culture. This paper attempts to examine Adorno's argument on the essence of the film medium in his critique of the culture industry. Furthermore, this paper tries to put some questions in order to rethink Adorno's perspective on film.

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