«Don’t Play It Again, Sam!»: Some Notes On Adorno’s Theory Of Cinema

Abstract

«“Don’t play it again, Sam!”: Some notes on Adorno’s Theory of Cinema». This article tries to point out some lines that were followed by Adorno’s critical work about the cinema’s world, which is related to his ideas about culture industry. Adorno thought about cinema from multiple perspectives, from musicological (which is linked to his collaborative work with Hanns Eisler) to sociological fields (that is related to such important texts as Dialectic of Enlightenment, written by Horkheimer and Adorno together). One of the most important aims of this work is to relativize the widespread idea that the reasons of his critical point of view is because he hardly disliked cinema, trying to justify that position in the context of his complete work.