CIN 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Industrial Revolution, Secondary Modern School, Pressure Point
16 Jun 2018
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The History of British Cinema Class 7
Childscape:
Problem on depicting childhood when the author is an adult.
“Childhood is unknown” as adults we can remember, imagine what it is like to be a child,
but we can’t be a child anymore. Boundary. Within that boundary there is all different kinds of
techniques, etc.
• The Culture and Politics of Childhood
o How children have rights and freedoms and how they can be inhinged upon by
adult environment
• Children and Animals
o James and friend and little rat Snowball
• Children in Public Space
o How they inhabit it, which is different from the way that adults do it.
• Kith, Quest, and Play
o Not just connections to bio family, but a wider network of friends and familiar
faces.
Jay Griffiths, kith (2013)
• The politics and culture of childhood
o Can’t speak and act in public in the way that adults can
o They have to be advocated for
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• “children, filthy little Romantics that they are, have an uncanny gift for nostalgia in
nature.”
o We’ve romanticized children, overtime childhood becomes idealizes and
romanticex as zone of uncaring, etc. Before the industrial revolution, children
were inherently sinful, looked after by governesses, tutors, etc.
o KIDS DON’T WANDER ANYMORE
o So much pressure on children now
o Uncanny gift for nostalgia in nature” – Griffiths
o We see this in the films, in the child and the natural world.
o Nostalgia: frequently associated with sailors, who have a melancholy desire to
return home. The way children care for animals and come alive in the natural
world. It’s a desire for belonging in nature
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• Kith not as family or close friends, but as “one’s home outside the house”
• “The riddle of this book is that of a child’s human nature, which includes a sense of
quest, the need for identity and the demand to honour the ludic principle – the principle
of play.”
• Work – school, family, all fit into pattern of productivity, labour and time discipline that
go with that
• Perceptions that are inherent to child’s perspective are pushed to the edges of everyday
life
• Wants to venerate childhood and use it for us to replenish our childhood
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Document Summary
Childhood is unknown as adults we can remember, imagine what it is like to be a child, Problem on depicting childhood when the author is an adult. but we can"t be a child anymore. The way children care for animals and come alive in the natural world. Encourages you to look closer: soundtrack: mostly nothing extra diagetic. But the sound design places high within the register of all the different elements in the film the ambient noises. Ambient noise high in the register: blend between realism, and a focus on details of the environment, and everyday life, opening scene, begins by showing the audience the poverty. Brother"s work life works into his own the mine is already conditioning his life. Looming destiny: constrained socially, he"s trying to provide for himself where other kids can socialize, bike = freedom, connectivity between freedom and childhood and economic necessity, movement music only apparent when he"s alone.
