Czterdziestolatek po czterdziestu latach. Obraz lat siedemdziesiątych XX wieku czy inteligencki głos w sporze o przyszły kształt polskiego pola władzy?

• Authors: Tomasz Zarycki , Tomasz Warczok

Title variants

EN

Being Forty After Forty Years: A Portrait of the 1970s, or an Intelligentsia’s Voice in the Struggle to Shape the Future Sphere of Power

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

This article is an attempt at a fairly detailed analysis of the TV series Being Forty in its first version of the 1970s. The text proposes an interpretation of the film from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory and in particular reconstructs the social sphere of the film’s protagonists, which consists of the intelligentsia elite, the nomenklatura, the lower intelligentsia, and medium-level technical personnel. In the picture produced by the filmmakers, the role of the intelligentsia, especially its multi-generational old elite, is dominant. This vision does not fully correspond with the real place of the intelligentsia in Poland during the Gierek era. The authors of the article thus interpret the film as the scriptwriters’ appreciation of the intelligentsia, both in respect to its lower technical staff and to the part of the nomenklatura that was less rich in cultural capital. The interpretative framework proposed in the text seems useful for analyzing other works of art in order to reconstruct the social relations of the times in which they were created.

Keywords

PL

lata siedemdziesiąte XX wieku w Polsce; inteligencja; pole władzy; seriale telewizyjne

EN

1970s in Poland; intelligentsia; sphere of power; nomenklatura; TV series

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 41-72

Dates

published

2020-12-29

Contributors

author

Tomasz Zarycki

• Uniwersytet Warszawski, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study

author

Tomasz Warczok

• Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie

Identifiers

DOI

10.35757/KiS.2020.64.4.2