Family stories with a moral: Polish scripted television
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Rodzinne opowieści z morałem: polskie telewizyjne seriale paradokumentalne
Family stories with a moral: Polish scripted television documentaries

Author(s): Jacek Gulanowski
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Family and social welfare
Published by: Zakład Historii Edukacji w Instytucie Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: family; popular culture; television series; scripted documentaries; postmodernity; vitalism; narration; story; mythology

Summary/Abstract: Scripted documentaries are a specific kind of television productions: they are low budget television series resembling documentaries, usually starring amateur actors, who are playing all egedly real characters, and the portrayed events are real life stories. They are gaining wide appreciation, especially among television producers, due to their low costs of production. The most popular theme of these stories are problems connected with family life. The content of these stories is filled with internal contradictions and it is actually a homage to the human vitality and its justification.

  • Issue Year: VIII/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 137-153
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English, Polish