Hello Ufuk,
If you read German, there is some good work that has been done on the
influence of Frankfurt school thought on the practice of "Guerillakino" that
emerged as part of the student revolutions. You might want to mine the
bibliography of Tillman Baumgärtel's book on Harun Farocki: _Vom
Guerrillakino zum Essayfilm_. (Berlin: b_books, 1998).
If you are not familiar with the history of post-war German film, you should
start with Thomas Elsaesser's _New German Cinema: A History_ (Rutgers UP,
1989), which will provide insight into the ways in which a some New German
Cinema directors (e.g. Kluge, Fassbinder, Wenders) were influenced by the
political legacy of the Frankfurt school, while others (Syberberg, Herzog)
appeared to react against it.
Good Luck!
Matt Niednagel
Princeton U.
PS -- pretty much anything that has appeared over the last 30 years on film
in the New German Critique will be film criticism informed by social theory.
This would be a good place do some keyword searches if you are interested in
the relation between social theory and film theory/criticism. MN
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