"Let the Little Children Come to Me": (Anti-)Religious Films for Young Spectators of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Period

Autor/in	Naydenova, Natalia
Titel	"Let the Little Children Come to Me": (Anti-)Religious Films for Young Spectators of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Period
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 48 (2017) 4, S.308-325 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-016-9284-4
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Films; Propaganda; Religion; Children; Literary Devices; European History; Social Values; Social Change; USSR + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Film; Child; Kind; Kinder; Literaturarbeit; Sozialer Wert; Sozialer Wandel
Abstract	The article is a comparative analysis of three films focusing on anti-religious and religious propaganda (targeting both Orthodoxy and sectarianism) and featuring children among the main characters: "The Miracle Worker" (1960), "Armageddon" (1962) and "Serafima's Extraordinary Journey" (2015). The three films feature a similar set of characters and artifacts which serve as the springboard for the unfolding of the individual plots. However, the techniques used in the characters' portrayal are very different in each of the films, leading to contrasting outcomes. This article explores the way the characters are portrayed, including the use of discursive strategies and intertextual mechanisms, with special emphasis given to the propaganda characteristic of the different periods in the country's history. It highlights the reversal of values between Soviet and post-Soviet societies, resulting in a drastic change in the didactic messages conveyed by cinema over these 50+ years. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01