The Socio-Cultural Image of Childhood (Based on an Analysis of Soviet and Russian Feature Films about Children)

Autor/inn/en	Polivanova, K. N.; Shakarova, M. A.
Titel	The Socio-Cultural Image of Childhood (Based on an Analysis of Soviet and Russian Feature Films about Children)
Quelle	In: Russian Education & Society, 60 (2018) 4, S.348-369 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1060-9393
DOI	10.1080/10609393.2018.1473696
Schlagwörter	Sociocultural Patterns; Childhood Attitudes; Films; Foreign Countries; Psychology; Social Change; Figurative Language; Maturity (Individuals); Children; Adolescents; Russia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziokulturelle Theorie; Film; Ausland; Psychologie; Sozialer Wandel; Reifung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Russland
Abstract	The current state of childhood research is grounded in classical psychological theories, and Russian psychology is tied to cultural and historical theory in particular. These theories were invented to generalize and make sense of the realities of childhood as they existed at the time when these theories were created. Rapid social changes, especially during recent decades, have led to the emergence of a wide range of sources that bear witness to how the day-to-day life of childhood has changed. The understanding of childhood has continued to transform from one era to another. A metaphor was even coined to describe it, and at some point there was even a specific metaphor coined, "the disappearance of childhood." This article seeks to explore how the image of childhood has changed in relation to the image of adulthood. As material for analysis, we chose Soviet and Russian movies from the 1940s to 2000s. The study is based on the assumption that a sequential analysis based on Yuri Lotman's theory of the structure of the text demonstrates how the image of childhood changes over time. If in the 1940s and 1950s the child was presented as immature and not quite grown up, the adult was portrayed as the embodiment of the ideal form of the individual, and the main conflict was structured around childish immaturity, then gradually over the decades more and more main characters who were children and adults were portrayed as different kinds of individuals, and the child (or teenager) sometimes came to embody obviously negative features. The child-adult dichotomy itself lost its significance. [This article was translated by Kenneth Cargill.] (As Provided).
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