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From philosophy to psychoanalysis, from economics to art, the Critical Theorists, who have done works in many fields of social sciences, have influenced the 20th century Western Marxism and directed the debates of the time. The acceleration of mass production in the cultural and artistic field during the period of the emergence of critical theorists has made their work focused on this field and many thinkers have shown important works. In particular, Adorno and Horkheimer’s criticism of the cultural industry is among the key of these studies. The aim of the study is to reveal the concept of the cultural industry, the critical theorists’ approaches to cultural and art products, especially to the cinema, from their texts. Critical theorists and the subjects they discussed continued to be discussed in the 21st century. In this context, in advanced capitalist societies, the cultural industry, through the means of mass communication, is produced, distributed and losing its fundamental function, becomes a part of cultural units. Thus, the cultural and artistic products that have intertwined with industry have lost their basic functions and have become a subject.

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