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Televizní seriál - záhada popkulturního sebevědomí
Seriality and Mystery of Popcultural Self-Consciousness

Author(s): Irena Reifová, Petr Bednařík
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta sociálních věd
Keywords: seriality; television serial; culture critique; inclusive paradigm

Summary/Abstract: The essay examines the topis of legitimacy of popular culture as potentially productive space and autonomous field of specific genres, narrative patterns, economic conditions and stemming pleasures. In particular, what is adressed is the discrepancy between the cult of television serial genre on one side and its denouncement in the eyes of art criticism in contemporary Czech society. The authors illustrate that unlike the viewers and producers, most eloquent elitist crituques do not exhibit much respect for the genre of television serial.

  • Issue Year: 3/2008
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 72-80
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Czech