Bolek and Lolek: From the Child Audience to an Entertainment Supersystem. A Research Reconnaissance Cover Image

Bolek i Lolek: od widowni dziecięcej do systemu rozrywkowego. Rekonesans badawczy
Bolek and Lolek: From the Child Audience to an Entertainment Supersystem. A Research Reconnaissance

Author(s): Piotr Sitarski
Subject(s): Media studies, Visual Arts, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Sociology of Culture, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: children’s film; Polish animation for children; Polish animation; entertainment supersystems; Bolek and Lolek

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the Polish television series Bolek and Lolek (1963 – 1986) and discusses its growth into an entertainment supersystem as defined in Marsha Kinder’s Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games. Modes of image circulation of the system are described as well as various modes of addressing the audience and expanding it to include various groups of older viewers. Special attention is paid to numerous toys and other objects produced within the system by the socialist state media industry but also by small private companies and individual fans.

  • Issue Year: 57/2018
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 60-73
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish