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Wojcik-Andrews, Ian

doi:10.1353/uni.0.0453

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“…Trying to account for this divide, Cary Bazalgette and Terry Staples 14 separated the cinema with children and that for children into two distinct sub-categories. Later Wojik-Andrews 15 proposed a similar segregation, between mainstream and counter cinematic children's cinema, between the amusing and the moralising purposes of the storytelling. For the purpose of my approach and in order to move beyond the terminological confusions referring to "children's films", I consider that such distinctions are excessively formal.…”

Section: Childhood Ideology Exploitation and Entertainmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As several authors have indicated, children's films are never innocent, they are pedagogical instruments of ideology in all political systems 26 . While children in the USSR were portrayed by the Soviet Union artists as brave peace fighters, in the West the stereotype of communism mobilising children against their parents, even denouncing them to be evicted to the Gulag, was widely circulated.…”

Section: Children Cinema and Ideologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Socialist Boy Detectives and the Cold Wars of Childhood

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"This paper discusses the various manifestations of children as protagonists in Romanian socialist cinema, and particularly those present in the juvenile detective movies of that time. Several productions of the socialism cinema industry had children as their main heroes and the movies discussed here were deploying tropes and narrative strategies specific to the global genre of boy detectives. The analysis uses examples that range from written texts, books or cartoons, to films and television series, as these cultural products were exploring not only childhood, but also a particular behaviour of young children and teenagers. They are considered to be relevant for understanding the transformations in Romanian society, as the socialist regime was creating an educational environment for children according to the dominant ideology, the narratives were exploring the resources of a wider genre."

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Section: Childhood Ideology Exploitation and Entertainmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Children Cinema and Ideologymentioning

confidence: 99%