It Does What It Does: On Chwała Supermanom... [Hail to the Supermen...] by Przemysław Witkowski Cover Image

Robi z nami to, co robi. O „Chwale supermanom…” Przemysława Witkowskiego (Recenzja: Przemysław Witkowski, „Chwała supermanom. Ideologia a popkultura”, Instytut Wydawniczy Książka i Prasa, Warszawa 2017, ss. 318.)
It Does What It Does: On Chwała Supermanom... [Hail to the Supermen...] by Przemysław Witkowski

Author(s): Karol Poręba
Subject(s): Review, General Reference Works
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: ideology; mass culture; pop culture

Summary/Abstract: Hail to the Supermen: Ideology and Pop Culture (Chwała supermanom. Ideologia a popkultura) by Przemysław Witkowski has been considered by Przemysław Czapliński as ‘the monograph’ of pop culture created in the last thirty years. In his essay, Witkowski has made several attempts to reveal how the neoliberal and nationalistic ideologies are related to the popular or mass movies, TV series and shows, music, books, and other pop cultural phenomena. This article is a review of Hail to the Supermen… The author reconstructs the main assumptions and points out some of the most noticeable simplifications and general problems with the book.

  • Issue Year: 27/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 519-523
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish