TY - JOUR
TI - Demonic Politics vs. the Politics of Difficult Trade-Offs. “House of Cards” and “Borgen” as Political Fiction
AU - Piontek, Dorota
TI - Demonic Politics vs. the Politics of Difficult Trade-Offs. “House of Cards” and “Borgen” as Political Fiction
AB - 
	Demonic Politics vs. the Politics of Difficult Trade-Offs. “House of Cards”
	and “Borgen” as Political Fiction

	
	Relationships between politics and popular culture are long-term and diverse, yet only in the recent decade or two have they been submitted to the scholarly research. They can be examined from two perspectives: the use of popular culture by the politicians to achieve their goals, and the depiction of politics in the culture itself. The article does focus on the latter, as it is centred around the political tv series being the elements of the phenomenon of the representation and negotiation of politics in the entertainment genres that can be termed politicotainment. Political tv series as depicted here do not usually attempt the dramatization of the real events, yet they do, to some relevant extent, represent the observations and experiences of their creators, thus being inspired by the real people and the real events. The article outlines typology of political films and tv series, discusses the ways of presenting politics in political fiction drama, as well as the reason for their popularity. In order to highlight the complexity of the analysed phenomenon, two popular and significantly different series are used as a reference: Netflix’s “House of Cards” and Danish “Borgen”.
	 
VL - 2016
IS - Volume 59, Issue 1 (225)
PY - 2016
SN - 0555-0025
C1 - 2299-6362
SP - 123
EP - 134
DO - 10.4467/2299-6362PZ.16.009.5186
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zeszyty-prasoznawcze/article/polityka-demoniczna-versus-polityka-trudnych-kompromisow-house-of-cards-i-borgen-jako-political-fiction
KW - political tv series
KW - political fiction
KW - politicotainment
KW - representation
KW - tv narrative