The 1670 TV Show as Seen by a Historian of Old Polish Literature

Abstrakt

The subject of reflection and analysis in the present sketch will consist in the 1670 TV show, and my aim will be to attempt to interpret selected plot points that are connected with the critical approach of the show’s creators towards Sarmatian culture. The show 1670 should be interpreted as a pop cultural voice in discussion on noble Poland, and the ways it is presented from the perspective of contemporary disputes and discourses. The show’s creators, by performing a kind of a deconstruction of national myths, use its most well-known elements (also stereotypically identified with the culture of the second half of the 17th century) such as antemurale, aversion to strangers, honor, economic backwardness, inscribing them into the tradition – modernity opposition.