Worker Hero – Worker Movie – Workers’ Anthropology

Several experiments in literature, film and other visual arts which idealized the worker hero and created the “hero of our time” during the ’50-‘80s was disputed at the stage of cultural politics. The ideologically driven distribution of heroes, which originated in the proletarian age of Moscow and Berlin in the ‘20s and ‘30s inevitably ceased or declined after the democratic change. What happened to, what is left from this once so common type of modern myth? Is still the worker hero there, but if not, then who took his role in the experience society? What kind of ideal image of social mobility exists in the drifting, rising, marginalized scene of cultural consumption, and how is this transition interpreted by cultural politics.