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Which of the following critics are associated with the Frankfurt School?

  1. A. Walter Benjamin
  2. B. Laura Mulvey
  3. C. Travis Henderson
  4. D. Max Horkheimer
  5. E. Leo Lowenthal

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Correct answer: A. A, D and E only

Explanation

Horkheimer directed the Institute for Social Research; Lowenthal was its sociologist of literature; Benjamin was closely associated with it ('The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'). Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist ('Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'), and 'Travis Henderson' is a distractor.

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