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posted on 2016-09-21, 12:53 authored by Sylwia Szostak, Sabina MiheljSabina MiheljThis article has two main aims. First, it seeks to contribute to existing research on
the mediation of post-communist memory by considering the Polish case and specifically by
focusing on audience memories of an iconic television series produced in communist Poland,
Four Tankmen and a Dog (TVP, 1966-1970), set during World War Two. Second, the article
pays particular attention to the generational stratification of audience memories, and thereby
makes a contribution to recent literature that examines the links between generation and
mediated remembering. The analysis draws on life-course interviews with viewers of two
different generations, conducted in Poland in 2014. The results indicate that the ways in
which Polish audiences remember communist-era programming, and specifically the extent to
which they perceive such programming as propaganda, vary significantly with generation. We
argue that these differences stem from generationally-specific experiences in the past, which
gave rise to distinct modes of engaging with the communist era and its heritage.
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European Journal of Cultural StudiesVolume
20Issue
3Citation
SZOSTAK, S. and MIHELJ, S., 2016. Coming to terms with communist propaganda: post-communism, memory and generation. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 20 (3), pp. 324-340.Publisher
SAGE PublicationsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-08-29Publication date
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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal European Journal of Cultural Studies and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549416682247ISSN
1460-3551Publisher version
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