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Anetta Bogusława Strawińska
https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2026.11.09
This article is devoted to the series X-Rated Queen, which fits into the trend of nostalgic stories returning to the 1980s and 1990s. The authors briefly characterize contemporary streaming series and discuss the nostalgia trend in pop culture, which occurs in two variants: global (Stranger Things) and local (X-Rated Queen). In the local trend, the political context plays an important role. It is closely related to the genre chosen by the creators and particularly exposed in crime stories and thrillers. The creators of nostalgia in the local variant are a generation of directors who remember the 1980s mainly from the perspective of childhood, and whose artistic imagination is based particulary on pop culture representations of that decade. Additionally, in their productions, they break taboo topics such as homophobia (Hiacynt) or the situation of sex workers in the Polish People’s Republic (Rojst, Brokat, X-Rated Queen). In this article, the authors analyze X-Rated Queen through the prism of the glamour category, which
in the 1980s was identified with the mythical West, wealth, freedom, as well as the ability to realize one’s plans and dreams. The authors are interested not only in clear inspirations from real characters (Teresa Orłowski, Danuta Lato), but also in the glamorous, colorful, mysterious world that seduces and demoralizes the heroine.
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Published: 2022-03-23
10.31261/FLPI
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