Critique On Frankfurt School By Using The Mlosso Movie...
Title: Critique On Frankfurt School by Using The Lego Movie Marxism is a convoluted idea which
includes classical Marxism, Neo Marxism, Hegemony and Althusserianism etc. Frankfurt School must
be the imperative one in contributed to Marxism. The contribution of the Frankfurt School is the
critical theory. In 1923, a group of Marxists established the Institute for Social Research at the
University of Frankfurt. Horkheimer, Adorno and Benjamin were the great contributors to that theory.
They are attempting to reconstruct classical Marxism in Neo Marxism which was influencing our
society or cultural industry. In this essay, it would focus on demonstrating and critique the ideas of
Neo Marxism by using The Lego Movie (2014) to illustrate the relationship with dominant and
subordinate class, popular music is a kind of tool to exploit workers and ability to step out of the
framework by society directly.
First of all, most people would comply with people who maintain power in the society, like Emmet
Brickowski who an everyman and construction worker follows ... Show more content on
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