Happy Socialist Ever After?

Autor(en)

Benita Carol Blessing

Abstrakt

Cinemas are an important site of learning for young people. Far from being a passive means of instruction, films aimed at children and young people provide an opportunity for a nation’s youth to interact with films’ messages both in and outside the cinema. From deciding which films to attend, to discussing the film’s ideas with their peers, parents and teachers, they offer young people the possibility of participating in a dialogue with adults about accepted social and cultural mores, such as gender and sexuality roles. This process is especially evident in socialist societies of the cold war era, where the state owned a monopoly on the film industry. This article examines representative children’s and young people’s films from the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), focusing especially on the well‐known fairy tale films from that country, in order to demonstrate the changes in social attitudes and practices regarding girls’ and boys’ place in society as young, gendered, citizens of the nation.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Bildungswissenschaft

Journal

Oxford Review of Education

Band

36

Seiten

233-248

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

0305-4985

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/03054981003696747

Publikationsdatum

2010

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

509008 Kinderforschung, Jugendforschung, 503006 Bildungsforschung, 604011 Filmwissenschaft, 605002 Kulturgeschichte

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/6a17993b-2cfb-46ce-8c21-e6f274a4de85