Wielka włóczęga? Negocjowanie tożsamości bohaterów seriali kryminalnych w kontekście Ponowoczesnych wzorów osobowych Zygmunta Baumana

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In one of the papers printed in the „Two sketches on postmodern morality” Zygmunt Bauman describes four types of postmodern identities. Bauman chooses as a best example showing the idea of postmodern’s episodic character a tv series. The author of this article chooses a crime drama as yet another example of that theory. The main character of the “Cop” (dir. by Wladysław Pasikowski) is a police officer that could be considered as an example of a “walker”. He also represents a classic type of masculinity which is, despite the gender discourse, rather stable. The player – described by Bauman, as a type ready for both: loosing and gaining, whereas none is eternal – is typical for the “Kryminalni” series. The last example considered in the article is the “Pitbull” (created by Patryk Vega). The police officers shown in the drama are no longer representing the “macho-type”, because the classic masculinity is being deconstructed. It is also almost impossible to decide which of Bauman’s identity types they could represent, because their behavior is not foreseeable. It is the best example of the postmodern instability.