In this essay I have studied how the film industry in the USA has worked with history in movies ever since the birth of film. I have also studied if Swedish teenagers are influenced by the contemporary reflections often showed in these movies. Furthermore I discussed how to work with contemporary reflections on film in a classroom. In these studies I used a group of teenager in the eight-grade. I stated of by asking the teenagers a verity of questions about movies and their interests in movies. Afterwards I showed them four different scenes from two different movies which all included reflections to today’s society. After the scenes the teenagers answered open questions about the scenes. The answer that I got was that the teenagers don’t see the reflection in a broad context but seems to see reflections that are more close to the, for example school. I those cases where they could reflect to something contemporary it was very often something completely different to what I reflected in the movie. I discuss that use of Contemporary reflections in historical films can be used in classrooms because it can give the students a way to work with and understand sources.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-2251 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Persson, Henrik |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för samhälls- och livsvetenskaper |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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