Our movie made children.

Forman, Henry James

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“…In February 1937 Rugg reported in this REVIEW on the Payne Fund in vestigations (55). A significant opposing interpretation of these studies, seemingly neglected in the relevant summaries, was reported in 1938 by Moley (122).…”

Section: Motion Picturesmentioning

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Chapter I: Nonschool Education outside the Home

Rugg¹

1946

Review of Educational Research

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Chapter I: Nonschool Education outside the Home

Rugg¹

1946

Review of Educational Research

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“…This delay cannot be simplified as a matter of the studio system’s control over Hollywood. For example, Henry James Forman’s influential study Our Movie Made Children (2012 [1933], also known as the ‘Payne Fund Studies’), which investigated the effects of films on young people, influenced both the formation of the Production Code and arguments against it (Jowett et al, 1996). Both the normative content and protective aims of Forman’s research were widely covered in popular publications and debated by legislators (Doherty, 1999).…”

Section: Reinventing Free Speech At the Mpaamentioning

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In the name of the nation: Media classification, globalisation, and exceptionalism

Driscoll

Grealy

2018

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article examines the relationship between exceptionalism and nationhood in media classification. The history of age-ratings is an international one, and the present challenges associated with digital media circulation are similarly international. We argue that the nation nevertheless provides an appropriate frame for understanding age-rating by attending to the ways national agencies have struggled to articulate the specificity of their work based on the specificity of domestic constituencies. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, our central examples include the resistance of the Motion Picture Association of America to agebased film classification, the British Board of Film Classification's examination of American films in the 1980s, contemporary Japanese videogame regulation, and the emergence of the International Age Rating Coalition. We argue that national exceptionalism is itself generalised and that media content regulation is less about producing national culture than about laying claim to a nation by differentiation.

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“…Indeed, some laymen have gone so far as to believe that the motion picture vies in importance with the national school system. 43 If, as Forman claimed, some "laymen" believed that movies rivaled schools in their educative importance, this was a sign that people had internalized a message the film industry had been sending for over forty years.…”

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“The Teacher's Unexpected Bath”: Plumbing the Meaning of Mayhem in the Celluloid Schoolroom

Weaver

2014

Hist. educ. q.

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Since the late 1930s, cinematic depictions of schooling have generally affirmed the necessity of school as a social institution and underscored the importance of formalized education for children and youth. Movies ranging fromGoodbye, Mr. Chips(1939) toDead Poets Society(1989) have represented school as a place of tradition and order, and films such asThe Corn Is Green(1945);Blackboard Jungle(1955);Good Morning, Miss Dove(1955);Up the Down Staircase(1967); andStand and Deliver(1988) have portrayed teachers as heroic figures. It could seem that the film industry has always portrayed schooling in idealistic terms. But that is not the case. This essay examines the familiar cultural genre of films about schooling, but it does so by looking backward beforeBlackboard Jungle, even beforeGoodbye, Mr. Chips, to the first four decades of cinema—a period when schooling was rendered not as a necessity, but as a joke.

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Our movie made children.

Cited by 74 publications

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Chapter I: Nonschool Education outside the Home

Chapter I: Nonschool Education outside the Home

In the name of the nation: Media classification, globalisation, and exceptionalism

“The Teacher's Unexpected Bath”: Plumbing the Meaning of Mayhem in the Celluloid Schoolroom

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