DRAMATICAL WORKS OF DAVID DRÁBEK OR THE CRITIC OF THE “MCDONALDISATION“ Cover Image

DRAMATIKA DAVIDA DRÁBKA ANEB KRITIKA MCDONALDIZACE
DRAMATICAL WORKS OF DAVID DRÁBEK OR THE CRITIC OF THE “MCDONALDISATION“

Author(s): Lenka Jungmannová
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

Summary/Abstract: The article of L. Jungmannová deals with the phenomenon of McDonaldization in the work of a playwright David Drábek (born 1970). First it focuses on specific ways of the author’s poetic: on the open structure of plays, mixing of genres and pseudotransmedia montage. Then it follows features of McDonaldization and procedures of its critique projected in his plays: substitution of quality by quantity, abolishment of a difference between reality and fiction, emphasis of the aspect of amusement, addiction to media, falseness of advertisement, condemnation of commertionalization and decline of communcation.

  • Issue Year: 2/2010
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 145-148
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Czech