Zbrodnia po amerykańsku. Polskie filmy sensacyjno-kryminalne lat osiemdziesiątych

The article presents an analysis of Polish action movies the 1980s in context social changes. fact that society was opening up to west had a significant impact on films produced period. It influenced both plot and general understanding convention (by filmmakers audience). Directors were increasingly aware genre high-brow critics ceasing demand mimetic recreation external reality from works they engaged with. On other hand, preoccupation with consumption, obsessive acquisition expensive gadgets mythologization dollar all permeated these proved their protagonists already living West. Even if only imagined one.