Między głosem a bezgłośnością – polityczność robotników w filmach i serialach o Łodzi na tle górnośląskiego uniwersum Kazimierza Kutza

Abstract

Because of Enlightenment thought, the idea of ​​the nation as a community based on the experience of culture, language and history had arosed. That idea had broke down class identities, trying to stick clearly outlined social layers into one. The barrier to this unification was the issue of politics, understood as having, clearly declaring its needs and defining itself rivals and opponents. Polish culture, based on the narrative of the nobility, generally looked at the peasant classes with paternalism, presenting its own image rather then their voice. The industrialization of the Polish lands in the nineteenth century, has given a possibility to form the working class from the former peasant state. Its creation was related to the development of large industrial centers in Łódź and Upper Silesia. These two regions have developed local communities whose identity was based on peasants and workers. This text poses the question of how workers are presented in the films about Łódź are they the political figures. A presentation of the political nature of Lodz workers is comparing with the way of presenting the political nature of workers in the Upper Silesian universe of Kazimierz Kutz.