UDC 791.43
 
VANUYSHYNA O.,
Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), Associate Professor at the Psychology Department of KNUTE
 
SERIES AS A PHENOMENON OF MASS CULTURE
 
The article considers the main characteristics of mass culture. It analyses series as a mass culture product: history, functions, laws of construction and influence on the audience. Close attention is given to contemporary post soviet (Russian and Ukrainian) series, its topics and means of reality reconstruction. 

 SERIES AS A PHENOMENON OF MASS CULTURE