ADORNO'NUN OTORİTARYEN KİŞİLİK ÇALIŞMALARI BAĞLAMINDA BOYALI KUŞ VE TEHLİKELİ OYUN FİLMLERİNİN ÇÖZÜMLENMESİ.

Some research was conducted on the conditions that gave rise to the authoritarian personalities at the root of fascism in the 20th century that is the age of wars and mass deaths. One of these is the large-scale research conducted in 1950, known as Authoritarian Personality. Theodor W. Adorno, one of the theorists of the Frankfurt School, is among the thinkers who contributed to this study. Adorno's contribution to the research was published as "The Authoritarian Personality" and was used in critical studies. In this study, Adorno researched what the authoritarian personality is, which he sees among the causes of antisemitism and fascism, and what conditions are effective in the formation of this personality. This article, based on Adorno's work, problematizes authoritarian personality representations in cinema. Authoritarian personality elements were searched and analyzed in the films using sociological criticism, psychoanalytic criticism and ideological criticism in the study. The films named Painted Bird (Nabarvené ptáče, 2019) and The Wave (Die Welle, 2008), which were determined as samples in the study, were analyzed in line with these theoretical discussions. It was concluded that all authoritarian personality traits are represented in both films. The fact that the same result is observed in two different films, set in different countries and depicting events in different social structures, shows that authoritarian personality traits can emerge and turn into a danger when they find a suitable environment. Cinema films that contain the sociological situations of societies also successfully reflect this situation. The events, situations and characters represented in the two films selected as samples also confirm these findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]