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The author thinks that cinema has to be used at school, but he also thinks that it can´t be used as a didactic or motivational resource because the role played by cinema in History is so important that we have to consider it as culture, art, spectacle...Abstract
This paper presents theoretical reflections on the concept of literacy and its current complexity. Then, a serie of films is introduced to be worked on and applied in the field of teaching and teachers training. A collage of three cultures aims at the revision of concepts and practice [...]Abstract
Understanding that cultural products for children transmit social representations and reproduce specific outlines of attitudes and behaviours, this paper focuses on the gender construction based on specific messages in children´s films. We analyze here, the 1991 Disney´s Company [...]Abstract
This paper presents the use of the different methodologies in cultural studies by Spanish researchers and academics. These working methodologies are still peripheral in film studies in Spain, although the number of publications generically adhering to cultural studies viewpoints are [...]Abstract
In this study we have analysed the current state of media literacy focusing on the game and film art forms. We aim to discover if some problems found throughout the history of film literacy were also occurring in game literacy research. It is also our intention to bring both visions [...]Abstract
Media fictional narrations on adolescents as characters and target are used by teenage audiences when looking for references for their identity building. As a starting point for Media Literacy activities to help teenage students in this process, this research focuses on the representations [...]Abstract
This article explores the teaching of film in secondary and higher education in the UK. It traces the popularity of the subject in higher and secondary education. It discusses the influence of the most important tendencies of film theory on ways in which film is taught in the UK. [...]Abstract
This paper traces key features of the BFI’s evolving strategies for film education in UK schools during the final 25 years of the analogue era. Historically, the BFI did much to establish the characteristics of film study, but it also embodied tensions which have continued to preoccupy [...]Abstract
Today in Spain there are many teenagers who suffer unwanted pregnancies. The extension of the abortion law and the approval of the sale of morning-after pill without a prescription have focused attention on girls under 18. The possibilities of motherhood, an unwanted pregnancy and [...]