Anioły laickiej epoki
Angels of a Lay Epoch

Summary/Abstract: One of many attempts at deciphering the miniseries Angels in America (2003), directed by Mike Nichols and based on a play by Tony Kushner. The author of the article concentrated on analysing the American myth contained in the cable-film, a myth that in the 1980s underwent a metamorphosis involving a degradation of the WASP stereotype, the American dream of a community, and religion conceived as the latter’s foundation. This utopian project was replaced by the necessity of seeking new identity by those why no longer fit the existing contours of American ethics, and, more widely, that of Western culture – homosexuals, victims of AIDS, and representatives of minorities who ceased living in the semi-darkness and hiding places of the past. The presented text proposes an analysis of the depicted crisis and a condition, whose emblem continues to be illness, with the titular angels as the remedy.

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