Abant Kültürel Araştırmalar Dergisi

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Critical Theoreticians who have worked in many fields of social sciences, from philosophy to psychoanalysis, from economics to art have intensely influenced the twentieth-century Western Marxism as they have dealt with and have led the debate of the period. Because the mass production was accelerated in the cultural and artistic field in the era when critical theorists emerged, their works were concentrated in this field, and many thinkers put forth important works on this field. In particular, Adorno and Horkheimer's critics of the culture industry are among the most important of these studies. Because the Critical Theorists and the topics they discuss are still being discussed in the 21st century, the purpose of this study is to reveal the concept of the culture industry, from the texts of Critical Theorists' approaches to cultural and artistic products, especially cinema. In this context, in the advanced capitalist societies, the culture industry is produced and distributed by means of mass media, and it becomes a part of the monopoly of culture by losing its basic function. Thus, cultural and artistic products intertwined with the industry have lost their basic functions and turned into commodities.