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Dziedzictwo: produkt – symulakrum – konsumpcja

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Kowalski K.

Rocznik Antropologii Historii

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2016

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issue 9, Dziedzictwo kulturowe

273–293

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Reprint (fragment): K. Kowalski, O istocie dziedzictwa europejskiego - rozważania (Kraków 2013)

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Fifty Years After, czyli kilka refleksji o dzisiejszej kulturze młodzieżowej

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Jakubowski W.

Studia Edukacyjne

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2017

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issue 46

113-123

EN

The article discusses the problem of recent changes in so-called “teenage culture”. Theoretical bases of the cultural anthropologic conception were provided by Margaret Mead. According to the author, “teenage culture” is different in each type of Mead’s culture types. Insignificant in the post-figurativstage, “teenage culture” is definitelydistinct in configurativetype in terms of separate aesthetics. This is exemplifiedby teenage subcultures, whose members contest dominant culture patterns (associated with adults). The main question concerns the role of “teenage culture” in the pre-figurativeculture – the modern world. Is the difference between the adults’ and young people’s perspectives evident in “teenage culture”? Moreover, is there a real “teenage culture” nowadays?

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James Bond a dylematy tożsamościowe Brytyjczyków – kultura popularna a kształtowanie tożsamości narodowej

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Hejwosz-Gromkowska D.

Studia Edukacyjne

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2020

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issue 58

85-105

EN

The author assumes that popular culture plays a powerful role in the process of socialization of young generation. The author tries to present that the conventional national symbols are being replaced by pop symbols and thus become the sources of national identity. The concepts of banal nationalism put forward by Michael Billig or Tim Enderson’s idea of everyday life’s practices in the development of national identity are being used. In the text, the phenomenon of James Bond is used to analyze the contemporary debates on British identity (Britishness). The author assumes that James Bond is a great example of Englishness that serves as a complex manifestation of a British hero which may, in turn, play a crucial role in political, civic, and patriotic education.

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Religious symbolism and contemporary culture. The case of Europe

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Sztajer S.

Przegląd Religioznawczy

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2018

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issue 1/267

PL

The aim of this paper is to analyze the ways in which religious symbols are present in non-religious spheres of contemporary European culture. It is widely known that, as a result of secularization, religious symbolic language is no longer present in the public sphere and culture of contemporary European societies in the same way as it was in the past. At first sight, it seems that it has lost its relevance for other fields of culture as well as for everyday communication, and that religion has become a relatively closed system of communication. However, more thorough investigation shows that various religious symbols are widely used in many fields of secular culture. The fundamental question concerning religious symbols is whether and, if yes, in what particular way, they change their meaning as a result of being used in non-religious cultural activity. What is the reason that previously marginalized religious symbols reappear in secular culture? It may be hypothesized that religious symbols are not culturally contingent, but they constitute a universal dimension of culture and are deeply rooted in the human mind.

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Kleopatra VII we współczesnej kulturze popularnej: przekaz źródeł czy stereotyp postrzegania Egiptu?

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Kulpa K.

Studia Europaea Gnesnensia

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2010

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issue 1-2

163-181

PL

For more than two thousand years Cleopatra has been an inspiration of artists. At the turn of the 20th and 21st century she became one of the icons of our (European) perception of Egypt. She is certainly better known than the builders of pyramids or Ramesses the Great, and she is remembered better than the names of ancient rulers. One may even venture to claim that although little is known, she is a familiar, not to say clichéd figure. One needs to consider what hides behind the representations of Cleopatra we encounter everyday in various aspects of popular culture-advertising, products of daily use, television. In my opinion, we only perceive the picture contrived by Octavian and the writers devoted to him-a femme fatale of the antiquity, an ambitious and ruthless temptress. Horace, Propertius, Florus and Pliny conveyed in their works an image of Cleopatra which met Octavian Augustus’ expectations: of a woman defeated in the eyes of the victor. A cursory read of their works in the 18th century, in the wake of renewed interest in antiquity following the discovery of Pompeii and Herculanum, led to uncritical repetition of Cleopatra’s depiction-first, in the historiography, and then in popular culture. Stereotypes concerning Egypt developed, reinforced by the descriptions of travelers. In the light of the latter, the country appears a quintessence of the Orient, with all its riches and delights. The figure of the last queen of ancient Egypt suited such notion perfectly. The most interesting issue is that today, when through archeological and historical research Cleopatra’s life became known in greater detail, the popular culture, advertising and cinematography in particular, keeps on perpetuating the stereotypical representation of this extraordinary woman. I incline towards the views of M. Krajewski, who claims that popular culture has become a lens sifting reality, and in striving to become an integral element of reality, it selects whatever is helpful (discarding the rest). The answer to the question of whether the image of Cleopatra originates from sources or stems from our stereotypes of Egypt, is, I think, a complex one. It was precisely the superficial reading of sources rediscovered, as it were, in the 18th century, that brought forth the stereotypes, whose reverberations in popular culture of the 20th and the 21st century created a specific picture of the last Egyptian queen. The “present–day” picture of Cleopatra is in a way a remote echo of Augustian propaganda, whose charm still holds sway over us. I wished to demonstrate this dependence by showing various aspects of popular culture, from press to cosmetics. Popular culture adopted those features of Cleopatra that help sell merchandise-youth, amorous intrigue, alleged beauty and murder. We cannot escape the influence she exerts on us and our lives, yet what lies beneath the facade of a pretty face with a ureus-adorned temples deserves consideration. In the case of Cleopatra VII it is a fascinating history of life and death of one of the most influential women of her times.

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The Stratifying and Socializing Role of Popular Culture in Shaping the Identity of Young Generation

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Piechaczek-Ogierman G.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2018

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issue 2(120)

192-202

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Popular culture creates trends, shapes the world view, is a source of inspiration and identification of the young. The research results presented in this study show that youth in the final stage of adolescence judge the reality in a critical way. A significant number of the examined learners implement the model of identity shaped in the ‘down top’ direction. They reject media authorities and aim at creating their own concept of themselves. At the same time, a large percentage of the respondents respect media models associated with appearance and the consumerist lifestyle.

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Dziesięć opowieści na czas przepływającej kultury popularnej (która nie jest kulturą masową)

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Bruszewska D.

Media – Kultura – Komunikacja Społeczna

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2013

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issue 9

241-246

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More than just Iron Man: A Brief History of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

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Karczewski K.

Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies

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2013

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issue 3

47-51

EN

Comic books and graphic novels are a significant part of today’s culture. Popularity of blockbuster movies about superheroes such as "Iron Man" or "The Dark Knight" clearly indicates that stories created for the comic medium can captivate large audiences. Unfortunately, such stories are often considered to be lacking in substance and are often perceived as a very simple form of entertainment. The aim of this article is to briefly show how comic books and graphic novels developed throughout history. While observing how this form evolved, it is much easier to notice that this medium can actually be used to tackle serious subject matter and, contrary to popular belief, even superhero stories can have a significant level of depth.

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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

EN

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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Harold Bloom’s Concern and “The Touch” that Always Does Wonders

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Memmedova B.

Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature

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2017

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vol. 41

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issue 1

DE

Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.

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This paper deals with the current debates as whether literary canon or classical works are destined to fall into oblivion or survive. The American literary critic Harold Bloom is very pessimistic about the future of literary studies and teaching literature as a whole. In his books, he makes elegiac conclusions about the Departments of English Language and Literature, which are likely to be renamed into the departments of Cultural Studies. His another concern is the literary “isms” and “ologies” which he considers to be destroying literature. The paper also focuses on the nature of reading and its various impacts on the reader, and its significance for literature students. The aim of the paper is to show that despite some grain of truth in Bloom’s writings as regards lack of aesthetic value of literary works in the postmodernist period when popular culture has taken over the canon works, there is no reason to worry about the present state of literary studies and literary criticism.

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Le numéro contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

RU

Том не содержит аннотаций на английском языке.

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Układy, znajomości, „haki” Paranoja spiskowa w polskim kinie współczesnym

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Durys E.

Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

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2016

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vol. 16

44-54

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The Polish national cinema is famous for its critical approach towards the government and official authorities and implicit references to the current social and political situation. The Polish Film School, The Cinema of Moral Concern or the works of such great auteurs as Andrzej Wajda or Krzysztof Kieślowski (esp. in his early work) bear that mark and must be analyzed in the context of politics. With the exception of historical movies, after 1989 Polish filmmakers openly distanced themselves from politics. The few exceptions that were released employ genre formulas to express political views. In my article I would like to focus on the usage of conspiracy paranoid cinema in Entanglement (2011), Traffic Department (2013), Closed Circuit (2013), and Secret Wars (2014). A brief history of paranoid conspiracy thinking in Poland precedes the analysis of the aforementioned movies. I also address the question to what extent the genre formulas shaped the world vision and ideology that inform those productions.

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PRZYCZYNY POPULARNOŚCI RELIGIJNYCH EVENTÓW W PERSPEKTYWIE TEORII POTRZEB LUDZKICH ABRAHAMA MASLOWA

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Zduniak A.

Colloquium Wydziału Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych AMW

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2015

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issue 3

251-267

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The main purpose of this article is to explain the popularity of mass religious events through the analysis of their impact on the different categories of human needs. Events are a kind of bridge between the traditional religious culture and the modern popular culture. Their popularity also stems from the fact that they can meet important needs of the individual more comprehensive than conventional forms of religiosity, which focus primarily on higher level needs. The author justifies her thesis on the basis of Maslow’s need hierarchy theory and shows how religious events can enhance and renew the traditional forms of religiosity.

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Dosezi i granice simboličkog otpora. „Proza u trapericama” u kontekstu jugoslavenskog socijalizma

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Kolanović M.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2014

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issue 6

EN

The main thesis of the paper implies the historically changeable characteristics of symbolical resistance in the texts of „jeans prose” (Flaker). Using jeans as a symbol of global popular culture, freedom, casualness, the American lifestyle, resistance to forms, rules, and high culture etc., jeans prose had its specific life in Yugoslav socialism which dynamically changed during the last three decades of socialist Yugoslavia. In the early sixties it was a symbolic place of critique of dominant socialist ideology and in later period, in a more commercial orientated Yugoslav society when jeans as commodity became a part of everyday life, jeans prose lost its primal rebel energy and malted into the culutral mainstream.

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Film jako kulturowa przestrzeń edukacji nieformalnej

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Pilawska R.

Studia Edukacyjne

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2021

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issue 61

207-228

EN

The article attempts to theoretically and methodologically capture the potential and possibilities of films within informal education. The author begins by reflecting on the importance of popular culture in the process of shaping the identity of the individual and then proceeds to determine the contemporary role of informal education and the importance of film as an educational medium (in reference to the previously applicable communication model and cognitive theory). In the further part of the article, in order to determine the current discourse, the author tries to present in an orderly manner both well-known and newer concepts in the field of film (originating from various fields of science). As a summary, the author refers to contemporary trends that seem to be followed by the latest research and practical activities related to film education.

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U źródeł sporu o wartości edukacyjne muzyki popularnej

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Michalak M.

Colloquium Wydziału Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych AMW

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2014

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issue 1

89-112

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The aim of the article is to present theoretical sources of the dispute concerning the educational values of popular music that has been going on since the sixties of the 20th century in the sphere of American as well as European pedagogy. Despite the essential role that popular musical genres such as rock, hip-hop and techno, have played (and have been still playing) in the process of shaping the cultural identity of many generations of youth, they have long been pushed outside school premises, or, at best, they have been placed on the margin of educational influences. The reasons for that were partially embedded in the exclusively aesthetic look on the part of pedagogues at popular pieces, deprived of references to their wider functions which they fulfill in the sphere of recipients` everyday lives. The author does not present the course of the very dispute. While outlining the main stands (aesthetic and sociocultural ones), he seeks roots of the mutually clashing convictions from philosophical, aesthetic, anthropological, sociological and psychosocial perspectives of the mass/popular culture which have been providing arguments for and against the presence of the up-to-date youth music in school curricula. The somewhat superficial (on account of the complexity of problematic aspects) overview of theories and outlooks, on the basis of which the controversy about educational values of popular music originated, opens up new areas of pedagogical activities, addressing various aspects of the contemporary complex and multidimensional culture.

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Can Islam be Cool? Emerging Islamic Consumer Culture

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Górak-Sosnowska K.

Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology

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2012

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vol. 3

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issue 6

93-109

EN

In the paper the author challenges the stereotypical image of Islamic culture as being repressive and hostile to consumerism. Using variety of examples, the author describes the multifold process of consumer culture formation in the Islamic world. Modern Islamic consumer culture is not homogenous. On the one hand, it is shaped by pressures of aggressively marketed global popular culture of Western provenance and reactions (often escalating into resistance) to that influence by the recipients, but on the other, it is deeply embedded in the traditional values of the local communities.

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Performing Identities and Negotiating Memory in Contested Spaces: Ukrainian Folk Songs in Contemporary Russian War Films

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Harris A. M.

Studia Ethnologica Pragensia

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2023

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issue 1

52-68

EN

Every year leading up to Victory Day on 9 May, Russian screens, large and small, show feature films, documentaries, and miniseries about the Second World War. These films have helped unify Russian citizenry and develop patriotism. The year 2015 proved to be notable for war cinematography: three feature films and one twelve-part miniseries premiered in honour of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. While all of these cinematic releases retell or engage with wellknown narratives, these remakes reflect tensions surrounding the conflict that erupted in Ukraine following years of increasing strained relations with Russia. ‘Performing Identities and Negotiating Memory in Contested Spaces: Ukrainian Folk Songs in Contemporary Russian War Films’ analyses the incorporation a Ukrainian folksongs into Sergei Mokritskii’s feature film Battle for Sevastopol and Leonid Pliaskin’s twelve-part miniseries, The Young Guard. In every cinematized version of The Young Guard, music has played a significant role. The author asks how directors use these songs to respond to the annexation of Crimea and conflict that erupted in the Donbas in 2014 as the films take place in these two regions. Contextualizing her analysis in scholarship related to collective memory, nationality, nostalgia, and intertextuality, she argues that the directors use the films to take two different approaches: symbolically reuniting the Soviet Union in film one and appropriating a Ukrainian song to underscore suffering caused by Ukrainian and German ‘fascists’ in the other.

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Homo Consultans Amidst Pop-Culture

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Kargulowa A.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2017

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issue 2(116)

9-29

EN

The article aims to portray changes in provision and reception of contemporary counselling, which finds itself under a strong impact of popular culture. The pop culture is described as a phenomenon intimately related and saturating social life, scientific research and daily life of modern people. In postmodern mediatized reality, deeply immersed in popular culture, the guidance is sought by a Homo consultans-a reflexive individual that experiences uncertainty/helplessness and establishes an interpersonal relationship (dialogue) with another human being-a counsellor-with a view to solving his/her problems. Seeking guidance and attempting to use the counsellor’s help to understand oneself, others and the world, the counselee actually strives after sustainable personal development and decent life. Homo consultans-is simultaneously the active seeker of a guidance and the passive object of the attack of guidance practices.

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Массовая литература: к истории вопроса исследований на постсоветском пространстве

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Hajder T.

Acta Neophilologica

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2017

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vol. XIX/2

117-131

EN

At the end of the twentieth century, the phenomenon of mass culture was the focus of scholarly attention with an ever increasing frequency: theorists of literature and cultural studies, as well as philosophers have developed a number of approaches to the study of popular culture: social, ideological and semiotic. Contemporary researchers are increasingly attracted to the question of the semiotic culture. In this regard, mass culture and accordingly literature are more and more frequently treated not only as a system of signs, but in fact as a sign itself. J. Lotman conducts his analysis through the prism of the literary process and his research methodology is based on literary methods. Once marginal (from the standpoint of the official literary and philosophical criticism), mass literature is going through the phase of ennoblement. It is dual-track in its “intergrowth” and is already facing up the oversignificant new system of modern cultural codes, while still being rooted in the low culture with its specific character of the text encoding. Therefore, following the principle of semiotic analysis, it is inevitable to take into account the interaction of several sign systems while considering the formative dynamics of the modern genrethemed version of popular literature.

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Serial jako medium edukacyjne, czyli młodzież i rodzina w serialach „Euforia” i „13 powodów”

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Płowuszyńska M.

Studia Edukacyjne

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2022

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issue 66

135-155

EN

Popular culture surrounds us all and becomes an indispensable part of our lives, which is why it is important to conduct research in this field. The article is based on two series dedicated to youth, Euforia and 13 Reasons Why. In this text, I described the educational potential of popular culture, introduced the phenomenon of the series and mentioned these types. Moreover, I included information about what attracts the viewer to this type of audiovisual messages. The dominant topic in this analysis of the series is the intra-family relations of young people. I described parenting styles, relationships in adolescent families, family types, conflict issues in families, and the trust and au- tonomy of adolescents. The crucial important issue of social, emotional and spiritual orphanage was raised, too.

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