Film fabularny doby PRL w rozpoznaniu przemian społecznych i kulturowych
Film from the Times of the Polish People Republic in the Recognition of Social and Cultural Changes

Summary/Abstract: FILM FROM THE TIMES OF THE POLISH PEOPLE REPUBLIC IN THE RECOGNITION OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGES Summary The sources of popular culture are the object of research on many diverse phenomena and cultural, political as well social changes, from the early Modern Times through the 19 and 20 century. This research is marked by its interdisciplinarity, using methods th th and theories of various social sciences and humanities: linguistics, literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology. Film, notwithstanding its artistic valour, remains a product of popular (mass) culture, so it should be interpreted and analyzed as a mass source. It is, on the one hand, a work of a collective creator (the director, the camera man, the actors), on the other hand, it is a product of the film industry. Film as a mass source turns out to be a useful tool allowing to discover the phenomena in question, thanks to which it becomes possible to approach a given cultural or social phenomenon. The authors propose to abandon the traditional singular analysis of particular films and to see away from their intellectual and esthetic value in order to examine their functions which is representative for a given époque, area or milieu. The authors find the following phenomena, which are reflected in the reality of the film, particularly characteristic of social and cultural changes in the times of the Polish People Republic: 1. The conflict of generations and the birth of counterculture: parents – children – youth in the film from the real socialist period, 2. Changes in the social structure: the ways of social promotion and degradation. Trans. M. Bucholc

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