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DRAMATICAL WORKS OF DAVID DRÁBEK OR THE CRITIC OF THE “MCDONALDISATION“

Author(s): Lenka Jungmannová
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

Summary/Abstract: The article of L. Jungmannová deals with the phenomenon of McDonaldization in the work of a playwright David Drábek (born 1970). First it focuses on specific ways of the author’s poetic: on the open structure of plays, mixing of genres and pseudotransmedia montage. Then it follows features of McDonaldization and procedures of its critique projected in his plays: substitution of quality by quantity, abolishment of a difference between reality and fiction, emphasis of the aspect of amusement, addiction to media, falseness of advertisement, condemnation of commertionalization and decline of communcation.

  • Issue Year: 2/2010
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 145-148
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Czech
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