Open AccessKrzysztof Kieślowski’s “Decalogue” as a Quality TV Series
Author(s) -
Monika Talarczyk
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
0eISSN - 2720-040X
pISSN - 1731-450X
DOI - 10.14746/i.2018.33.04
Subject(s) - movie theater , series (stratigraphy) , television series , prism , art , point (geometry) , quality (philosophy) , literature , visual arts , media studies , sociology , philosophy , mathematics , physics , optics , epistemology , geometry , biology , paleontology
The text is dedicated to The Decalogue (Dekalog,1988) by Krzysztof Kieslowski and analyses the television series through the prism of genre and contemporary television studies, including the concept of quality television. Kieslowski’s series fulfills all the criteria assigned to the contemporary new generation television series, and can act as a reference point for interpreting Poland’s first new generation series by HBO, In treatment (Bez tajemnic, 2011–2013). The two titles are also linked by the same Polish film tradition, i.e. the cinema of moral concern, even though In treatment is based on foreign format.