Between Fact and Fiction: Docusoap Polish Style, or Documentary Soap Operas
Beata Kosińska-Krippner
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.plInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
Abstract
The article deals with documentary soap operas, or the Polish version of docusoaps. This is a television genre that is a hybrid of observational documentary and elements typical of soap operas. In the introduction the author presents up to date research on docusoaps: she defines, following Margarete Lünenborg, the conditions that had to be met, in order for the genre to come into the existence, and she shows the circumstances in which it first appeared. She refers to the work of Richard Kilborn in order to present characteristic features of docusoap, and she uses the staging strategies for reality TV described by Elisabeth Klaus and Stephanie Lücke, in order to show staging strategies in docusoaps. In the main part of the article Kosińska- Krippner presents a short history of documentary soap operas, classification of its various types and the analysis of its components. She then defines this genre and describes its features. In the conclusion the author compares docusoaps and documentary soap operas, and shows the similarities and differences between the two genres, she also comments upon the value and usefulness of this genre.
Keywords:
docusoap, Margarete Lünenborg, reality TVReferences
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Beata Kosińska-Krippnerkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Pracuje w Zakładzie Antropologii Kultury, Filmu i Sztuki Audiowizualnej w Instytucie Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk; zajmuje się teorią i historią filmu i telewizji; redaktorka “Kwartalnika Filmowego”, w którym w latach 1993-2005 publikowała m.in. doroczną kronikę wydarzeń filmowych, obejmującą lata 1992-2002. Autorka pracy doktorskiej pt. Poetyka polskiej telenoweli dokumentalnej (2008), napisanej pod kierunkiem prof. Marka Hendrykowskiego.
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