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Crime fiction in the period of PRL (PRL crime fiction)

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Skotarczak D.

Our Europe. Ethnography – Ethnology – Anthropology of Culture

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2014

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issue Vol. 3

77-84

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A novel with a socialist police motif is a subgenre of PRL crime fiction which appeared in the Communist Blok countries. Its characteristic features are as follows: the over-persuasive function, glorification of the socialist police (MO), inspirations which were taken from the poetics of social realism novels, and low literary standards. In fact, the PRL crime fiction constitutes a far more complex phenomenon. Along with ideologically biased novels of poor quality, appear those written at a high, professional level. The latter concerns the authors like Leopold Tyrmand, Andrzej Piwowarczyk and Tadeusz Kostecki. The most popular authors are Zygmunt Zeydler-Zborowski, Jerzy Edigey, Anna Kłodzińska and Helena Sekuła. The writing women, mainly represented by Barbara Gordon, set the female trend in PRL crime fiction, which is worth attention.

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Русский национальныц стиль и эго реализация в текстах современных сми

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Клушина Н. И.

Stylistyka

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2012

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vol. 21

19-34

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National style is the ideał style of a nation, contrasting greatly with the style ofmass culture. The ąuality press in modem Russian mass media features texts written in national style,while the yellow press is written in global supranational style. Research on the ąuality press demonstrates that national style has been becoming morę difficult, constituting a growing trend.

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Mezi obory: vizuální kultura

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Křížová A.

Národopisný věstník

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2009

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vol. 26_(68)

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issue 1

58-62

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In the field of the folk and popularized art, ethnography and art history cooperated for the entire 20th century, especially in the iconographic and iconological studies. However, the folk and popularized art remained a subject matter of ethnology, while the art history was concerned with the professional art. This was the reason that mass culture and visual art were marginalized until the 1960s, regardless of the social groups which are consumers of this type of culture, and regardless of the aesthetic rating. This barrier was broken only within the last three decades under the influence of the increased interest in everyday culture and its manifestations such as mass graphic, occasional prints, greeting-cards, souvenirs, recently also advertisement and new media products. The whole sphere of the so-called visual culture became an object of interdisciplinary research with participation of sociology, psychology, cultural history, art history, musicology, theatrology and filmology, visual anthropology as well as ethnology. Within the frame of ethnology, the new specialization was named Bildlore or Bildforschung.

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Remediating Global Media in Recent Shakespeare Productions on Romanian Stages

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Nicolaescu M.

Messages, Sages and Ages

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2016

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vol. 3

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issue 1

81-86

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The paper discusses recent Romanian Shakespeare productions of The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Bucharest. It argues that global mass culture, in the form of TV sitcoms and musicals, YouTube clips and computer games, is re-circulated on Romanian stages with the result of re-mediating the older forms of Romanian Shakespeare performances. The paper interrogates the popular character of the new type of productions, which are largely unpolitical and motivated by commercial reasons. The last part of the paper presents a radical deconstruction of Shakespeare’s text in the form of a computer game, which, however, re-introduces the political orientation of older, pre- 1989 performances.

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Kultura popularna, kultura masowa i zagadnienie emancypacji.

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Wyczyński G.

Nowa Krytyka

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2016

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issue 37

173-188

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In the field on mass/popular culture theory one can distinguish two different aproaches – according to the first of them, culture is a tool of social control and the source of profit (this two functions can complement each other); according to the second, popular culture is a semiotic battlefield, where one can produce also opposite and subversive meanings. In this article I’m setting myself two goals. In the first part of the text I’ll compare two foregoing traditions. In the further parts I’ll confront the following question: can this two theories help us to understand the possibilities of emancipatory subjects in contemporary world? Because the emancipatory and opposite functions of popular culture are emphasized mainly by members of the second tradition, I’ll concentrate here primarily on their views.

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Kultura masowa, a społeczeństwa przełomu XX/XXI wieku w obliczu makdonaldyzacji, amerykanizacji i nowych mediów

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Krzak Ł.

Alcumena. Pismo Interdyscyplinarne

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2020

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issue 3(3)

143-160

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The topic that I have decided to discuss in this article is the progressive imperialization of culture, the dehumanization of society and the phenomenon of Macdonaldization (combined with the adoption of the American lifestyle on many levels), which have an impact on the socio-cultural changes of the 21st century. It is a sensitive topic, because changes taking place in society are very dynamic, and the progressive commercialization of aspects of life affects our perception of the world and personal development. The article is typical from the border of sciences, interdisciplinary, and fits into the field of cultural and sociological studies. The article is divided into three short chapters devoted to: definitional and notional issues, the comparison of interactions of the discussed phenomena with the society as well as the author’s conclusions and observations. The work was based on the publications of other scientists and researchers in the field of the phenomenon of Americanization / Macdonaldization itself, as well as sociologists, economists, cultural scientists and cultural theorists.

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Institucionalizace folklorismu v českých zemích

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Jančář J.

Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)

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2015

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vol. 25

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issue 4

273 - 277

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The term “folklorism” comprises a wide spectrum of the so-called second existence of folk culture: from the production of folk costumes and the revival of folklore expressions, customs and habits to the renewal of traditional handicraft techniques. Even though many folklore expressions accompanying the entertainment and social activities were used as early as in the late-18th century, the first attempts to institutionalise these interests came only with the development of club activities in the late-19th century. Folklorism and transformations of traditional folk expressions became a theme for the research fellows at universities and academic institutes in the late-20th century. It was Oldřich Sirovátka who paid attention to folklorism in our country. He emphasized that folklorism could be observed and evaluated solely as part of the complete cultural and social life. The foundation of the National Institute of Folk Culture in Strážnice in 1990, which is directly controlled by the Ministry of Culture, was important for research on this realm. An impetus for this was brought by the UNESCO document known as the Recommendation on the Safeguarding of Traditional Culture and Folklore. The result of research on folk traditions awakes the interest of the wide public that chooses and prefers particular items from contextual and complex expression of folk culture according to its interests. This results in activities which we call folklorism with regard to their bound to folk tradition.

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Poza ramy spektaklu. Twórczość Darka Foksa w przestrzeni kultury masowej

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Czyżak A.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2016

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issue 25

263-272

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The aim of article is to analyse the main artistic strategies in Darek Foks’ writing and to compare his works with the tradition and products of mass culture. In his latest composition, written in 2015 and titled Dad’s tablet, the author, as many times earlier, casts a critical eye over significant categories of mass culture, especially performance, stageability and, artistic authenticity. In this way Foks tries to leave his own, distinctively individual mark, a rebellious gesture against the rules governing contemporary culture.

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Blondynki na krańcu świata. Kobieca opowieść o Czarnym Lądzie

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Wrzeszcz N.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Cultura

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2013

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issue 5

203-2014

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The text is an attempt at determining in which direction the contemporary travel documentary is going, based on the example of artistic achievements of Beata Pawlikowska and Martyna Wojciechowska. The authors, using the features of the transmedia narration, show the small parts of the world and facilitate the understanding of the „Other”. The documentary is evolving, it adapts to human likings and undergoes technical development into women’s transmedia story. The expectations of the mass culture influence the quality of the presented stories, and a specific kind of „product” is created for the consumers.

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Antybohater w teatrze „bezczelnym” Strzępki i Demirskiego

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Kostaszuk-Romanowska M.

Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2016

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vol. 9

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In theatrical play created by Monika Strzępka and Paweł Demirski the figure of anti-hero becomes part of artistic strategy. The article examines selected performances and demonstrates how the anti-hero character is constructed. This creation involves radical redefining of certain cultural, literary and historical tropes which contemporary mass culture generates. The archetypal figure is dismantled by means of certain techniques such as deconstruction, re-codification, synthesizing the character or exposing his conventional nature. As a result of these artistic strategies the anti-hero’s identity is blurred, self-contradictory and frequently devaluated.

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“Tibupoeg Pio” maagia ehk vaartusliku traditsioonilise teksti ootamatust esiletousust

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Maria Z.

Mäetagused

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2014

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vol. 58

35-52

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The article focuses on the song “Il Pulcino Pio” (in Eng. The Little Chick Cheep), which was released and became a real hit in Italy in 2012, analysing the reasons for its popularity. In a more detailed investigation of the ostensibly simplistic song with no special content, the author explains its deep semiotic meaning and derivation from the most ancient layers of consciousness. The analysis points to the main factors that helped the song get fixed in the minds of the general public: children’s song form reminding of cumulative fairytales, counting-out rhymes and primitive ditties; the chain structure of the alternating text and video; imitations of animal sounds and easily memorable rhythm, and an unexpected finale. The analysis elucidates the mechanism and purpose of “The Little Chick Cheep”: to derive exalted pleasure, free the mind from anxiety, by delving into a childish, primitive, primal state, which is generated by simultaneous visual, audial and semantic techniques directed at activating the archetypes of collective subconsciousness.

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Multimedialne iluzje jako reprezentacje przeszłości

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Julkowska V.

Rocznik Antropologii Historii

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2013

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issue 1(4)

69-84

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n the article, the problem of representing the past is shown as an example of forms of graphic representation of the past, such as the historical panorama. The way of development from the historical painting panorama to the historical photographic panorama in the form of an a historical multimedia event, became a good starting point for reflection on the subject of the historism of interpretation of the past and ways of representation of the past changing with them. Pointing out the relations between authors of presenting the past and its potential receivers is a different problem. In the course of this relationship there appears to be a type of communication, suitable for needs and possibilities of the receiver and there is also an announcement in the form of representation of the past. The point of reference is the multimedia panorama of the ancient city of Pergamon, which was exhibited in Berlin (2011-2012) and the exposition of ancient architecture and sculptures in the Pergamon Museum. From comparing these two expositions, there appeared two models of functioning of the knowledge of the past (the educational model and Cornelius Holtorf's democratic model) and various forms of experiencing the past by participants in mass culture. It is a different problem to understand one's role by representatives of science, art and media, which are engaged in creating the above mentioned representations of the past.

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Młodość wobec starości: szacunek czy deprecjacja? „Namir!” Lubka Deresza

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Nowacki A.

Slavica Wratislaviensia

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2016

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vol. 163

401-414

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This article deals the problem of old age in the novel Namir! by Ukrainian writer Lubko Deresh. To accomplish this research task, at the beginning of the presentation problem of how the elderly was presented in culture and literature over the centuries was analyzed, and then was analyzed the novel itself. Studies have shown that in his book the author raised the question of a confrontation of youth with an old age. Our analyzes of Namir! by Deresh turned out that it repeats the patterns of mass culture, showing atendency to devaluation the elderly. During the study revealed, however, achange in approach to the problems of old age, which is visible attitude of respect for the elderly linked to equality in the face of inevitable death.

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Метою цієї статті є спроба показати проблему старості в романі українського письменника Любка Дереша Намір! Щоб успішно висвітлити так окреслене завдання, на початку було звернено особливу вагу на те, як питання старості представлялося культурою та літературою протягом століть, і тільки тоді було звернено увагу на саму повість. Дослідження показали, що в своїй книзі автор використав питання конфронтації молодого віку із старістю. Під час аналізу нами було встановлено, що Намір! повторює схеми масової культури та показує виразну схильність автора до девальвації літніх людей. Наше дослідження показало, однак, певну зміну в підході до проблеми старості, а саме, що зміна зневаги на ставлення з повагою до літніх людей пов’язана із рівністю всіх людей перед обличчям неминучої смерті.

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Negacja autorytetów i pogarda a społeczeństwo masowe

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Cwynar K. M.

Polityka i Społeczeństwo

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2020

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vol. 18

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issue 3

124-143

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The author takes up the problem of the negation of authorities in mass society. She points to their significance so far and the premises of their contemporary negation. Not without significance in this case is the issue of rejecting higher values in favour of the pragmatisation of life and the formation of a mass society, whose main principle is mediocrity. The aim of the considerations is to indicate the manifestations of contemporary processes resulting in the negation of authorities of an axiological nature, and the contempt for higher values. They are reflected in such areas of culture as science, art, politics and religion

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Status nowych mediów w kulturze współczesnej

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Guzowska B.

Colloquium Wydziału Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych AMW

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2014

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issue 4

61-72

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In our times, so-called “new media” is characterized by immediate availability, multiple of “worlds”, generality. Informations and images which are offer by media are generally affect on our relationship to other people, our ideas, ideals, favoured lifestyle. New media are changing the perception of places, time and dimensions of human existence. It’s necessary to emphasize, that the present culture with more developed information systems and with the use of new media, cause, that it arise the new expanses, communicating forms and interaction.

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The Disappearance of Customs and Rituals in the Żywiec Region. Mass Culture and Globalization as Threats to the Local Tradition

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Sychowska E.

Anthropos?

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2019

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issue 28 Elitarne

141-153

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This work contains reflections on the influence of mass culture and globalization on the disappearance of traditional cultural values of Żywiec. The thesis was formulated, according to which mass culture and globalization pose a threat to local traditions, displacing them, causing them to transform and deprive them. The phenomenon of local culture was presented, analyzing its definition, meaning and sense for human civilization. The concept of tradition and its relationship with regional culture is presented. The study also includes a discussion of the phenomena of mass culture and globalization. Based on the available definitional approaches, their origin, essence and meaning were analyzed. The most important implications of their presence for particular areas of human civilization development are underlined. The influence which both phenomena exert on the cultural plane of human functioning is described. The original and specific regional culture of Żywiec Highlanders was presented. An assessment of its contemporary condition has been made, using specific examples of areas of culture and art. The influence of mass culture and globalization processes on Żywiec traditions was estimated, drawing synthetic conclusions from the considerations. The accepted thesis was confirmed in part, revealing also another, much more positive and optimistic kind of influence of mass culture and globalization on the elements of regional culture.

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Reflections on Rationality, Utility, University, Mass Culture and Unsustainable Society

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Śleszyński J.

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2021

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vol. 8

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issue 55

180-190

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This paper is an expression of gratitude, remembrance and honour the jubilee of Prof. Tomasz Żylicz. As I have been invited to write a paper for a special issue of the CEEJ journal, I sincerely wanted to express regarding my friendship and my research that have been binding me with Tomasz in my more than 40-year work in the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. Our cooperation was varied and rich including joint articles, research projects and our work for the Ministry of the Environment. In this paper, after friendly acknowledgment, I decided to propose my polemical answer to the paper ‘Is reason valued now?’ written by Tomasz. The subject of my reply is primarily the rationality in general and in the institution of university in the context of teaching and practicing science, including first of all economics and ecological economics. The method applied in this paper is my descriptive and polemical reference to Tomasz's theses with the analytical use of literature, both classics and very current references. The basic topic of the paper focuses on the fact that modernity continues in an increasingly inertial movement towards mass culture and is dominated by three criteria in this mechanism namely usefulness, non-exclusion and accessibility. I analyse these three fetishes in our dynamic times and with particular emphasis on their negative role in academic education. In my conclusions I categorically state that scientific knowledge and education, perfectly represented by universities, were formed and developed in an alliance with usefulness and utility, but never only thanks to them and never only for them.

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„Beka z nienormalsów”, czyli satyryczny obraz niepełnosprawnych w kulturze masowej

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Grzybowski P. P.

Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej

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2014

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issue 6

9-32

EN

In most societies disabled people are subject to taboo, in terms of laughing at their weaknesses, failures, inadequacies and differnt situations connected with their disability. However, they are becoming a more frequent ligtsome topic of different forms in mass culture (from television to the Internet) – interesting especially when they laugh at themselves. The article deals with the situations of laughing at Other in this context together with the examples of films, shows and educational projects.

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In most societies disabled people are subject to taboo, in terms of laughing at their weaknesses, failures, inadequacies and differnt situations connected with their disability. However, they are becoming a more frequent ligtsome topic of different forms in mass culture (from television to the Internet) – interesting especially when they laugh at themselves. The article deals with the situations of laughing at Other in this context together with the examples of films, shows and educational projects.

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The Image of Genghis Khan in Contemporary Buryat Nation Building

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Nowicka Rusek E., Zhanaev A.

Polish Sociological Review

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2015

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vol. 187

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issue 3

381-394

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GenghisKhan is highly valued among peoples ofCentralAsia, a radical departure fromRussia, and other nations across Europe, where he is regarded as the embodiment of savagery, barbarism, destruction and ruthlessness. Yet, another image exists among the Buryats, who accept theirMongolian origin and find support for their ethnos in it. The article concerns the functioning of Genghis Khan’s image in popular culture and the everyday lives of Buryats living in the ethnic Buryatia.We are, therefore, interested in how the nation’s elite succeeds in constructing a vision of the past, its golden age, to guarantee cultural and political entity in the modern time.

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Rys historyczny Teatru Muzycznego Takarazuka – w poszukiwaniu nowego „teatru narodowego”

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Lecińska-Ruchniewicz M.

Slavia Occidentalis

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2017

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issue 74/2

51-64

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The Takarazuka Revue (Takarazuka Kagekidan) occupies an important place among Japanese modern theatres and enjoys unwavering popularity both in Japan and abroad. Both the artistic and commercial character of the idea that brought the first Japanese all-female revue to life in 1914 determined its further development and process of conversion from a simple choir to a full scale musical theater. Kobayashi – the founder of the Takarazuka Revue, an opera aficionado and theater critic – was driven by the need to create a new, affordable and easily understandable national theater that would meet the needs of modern Japanese society. Currently, the Takarazuka Revue is one of the most active and successful modern Japanese theaters. Its harmonious combinationof trends in mass culture and Japanese and Western theatrical traditions is fascinating. The highly characteristic fusion of simplicity and splendour, kitsch and sophistication that can be seen in the revue’s works, creates a unique, albeit somewhat controversial style, complemented by musumeyaku (female emploi) i otokoyaku (male emploi) played by actresses taught in a special school affiliated to the Takarazuka Revue.

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