„Era antybohaterów” w amerykańskiej produkcji telewizyjnej. Próba diagnozy nowego zjawiska na mapie kultury popularnej

• Authors: Major Małgorzata

Title variants

EN

“The age of anti-heroes” on American television. A new phenomenon on the map of popular culture

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper circulates around the question of why do we want to watch anti-heroes in American television series. It answers this question indirectly by defining and characterizing the most prominent male and female anti-heroes, who are very popular especially among the youngest fans of TV series. Tony Soprano, Brian Kinney, Nancy Botwin and Jackie Peyton are analyzed here as representatives of this new kind of characters, who blaze new trail in popular culture. The paper concludes with some remarks on the relation of superhero vs. anti-hero and speculation as to who wins, as well as reflections on the future of American television series and their place on the map of popular culture.

Keywords

PL

antybohater; telewizja; serial; badania seriali

• Publisher: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
• Journal: Panoptikum
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 10(17)
• Pages: 92-108

Contributors

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Major Małgorzata

• Uniwersytet Gdański