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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article analyses the portrayal of education in European cinema from the perspective of their systems of education and the behaviour of teachers and pupils in the classroom. Since its very beginnings, cinema has played a significant role in forming the collective European memory, and has cast a critical eye over pedagogy and didactics, especially with regard to young outcasts. The article reviews a number of films whose subject is education, the classroom and the role of parents and teachers in educating children. Education and children is a recurrent theme in European cinema, which examines its subject from a critical viewpoint that is sometimes satirical and occasionally savage. The exclusion, marginalization, neglect and manipulation of children and adolescents, and the abuse and merciless severity of certain educational systems are all part of the collective European memory thanks to the condemnation of some of the best films ever made in the continent.

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Title
Los sistemas educativos en la memoria heterodoxa del cine europeo/Educational Systems in the Heterodox History of European Cinema
Author
Martínez-Salanova, Enrique
Pages
53-60
Section
DOSSIER
Publication year
2010
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Grupo Comunicar
ISSN
11343478
e-ISSN
19883293
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
757731751
Copyright
Copyright Grupo Comunicar 2010