Problemy genologiczne z pejzażem telewizyjnym. Propozycja klasyfikacji faktualnych gatunków hybrydowych i gatunków „reality TV”
Genological Problems with the Television Landscape: A Proposed Classification of Factual Hybrid and Reality TV Genres

Summary/Abstract: Syncretism and hybridization, inscribed in the definition of the film genre, have become a genre distinguishing feature for many television forms that appeared in the times of neotelevision. The docusoap wave in the mid-1990s and the dynamic proliferation of other hybrid genres made many viewers and commentators feel lost in the TV genre landscape. In Poland, history repeated itself with another wave of proliferation of new TV genres and the emergence of scripted-docu. However, this time the conceptual chaos also affected scientific works. The author identifies the phenomenon of secondary conceptual blurring of genre names from the area of television genology in the second decade of the 21st century. Using a few selected examples, she describes the struggle of researchers with classifying, and above all naming, television hybrid genres, and the consequences of genological problems. She also presents a proposal for the classification of borderline television genres, which is to help partially control the conceptual chaos in this area. In her classification, the author separates the group of factual hybrids from reality TV hybrids.

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