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Contextual Research: Poster

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contextual research: Movies Can Teach Us About Death and Loss

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No matter how often Disney movies begin with a  dead mother , they rarely dwell on grief. Pixar movies, on the other hand, have always trafficked in melancholy. They often explore the many facets of loss. They’re funny-sorrowful, melodies in a minor key, tonally Jewish. And this season’s installment is the most mournfully engaging yet. Just look at the dolorous history of Pixar films: The  Toy Story  trilogy is about how we humans can never truly know those we love; it ponders the losses we incur simply by growing up.  Finding Nemo  and  Finding Dory  look at parents’ fears of losing a child, and concerns about raising a child with a disability.  Ratatouille  is about all the Proustian associations we have with food—how transporting a taste can be, how tied into golden-toned, long-in-the-past memories.  Brave  is about mothers and daughters and the necessary pain of growing apart.  Inside Out  is about coming to accept ...

Contextual Research: The Children's Film: Genre, Nation, and Narrative

The Children's Film: Genre, Nation, and Narrative: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=i8omDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=children+films&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj01v3lgbThAhUrQxUIHXJIBBsQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=death&f=false

Contextual Research: Coco and other movies that help explain death and grief

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Recently, there’s been a lot of talk of Disney Pixar’s new film,  Coco . Since its release on January 19, 2018 it topped the UK box office and has already won a Golden Globe. The animated movie, which is set during the  Día de Muertos festival, has a comforting and hopeful view on death. It’s not easy to explain the confusion, sadness and guilt to children who have lost someone close to them. It may be their first experience of death and they are likely to have many questions about what dying means. One way of helping children understand death and grief is through children’s films like Coco. Movies provide a visual medium to make it easier for children to identify with the characters and their situations. These five children’s movies explore the emotions, conflict and grief of saying goodbye to a loved one. Coco Pixar’s newest children’s animation is all about life after death. The main character is a 12-year old boy who leaves his hometown to find the Land of the...

Contextual research: Why death is common in kids’ films and how parents can cope

In the latest Pixar release, “The Good Dinosaur,” little Arlo’s dad is dramatically washed away by a raging river. And Arlo isn’t the only animated hero to lose a family member in the film’s first act. The protagonist in last year’s “Big Hero 6” loses his brother in an explosion. Then, there’s Nemo, whose mom is eaten by a barracuda in the opening minutes of “Finding Nemo.” In “Frozen,” Anna and Elsa’s parents are lost at sea. And, who can forget the heartbreak of “Bambi,” when a shotgun blast kills the little deer’s mother. There’s a lot of death in animated movies for kids. In fact, research has found that main characters in these films are more than twice as likely to suffer traumatic death than in dramas aimed at adults. What’s a parent to do? It’s not that cartoons are trying to scare young viewers. Death of a parent is often used as a dramatic device to focus on the young protagonist, says University of Ottawa professor Ian Colman, who conducted a study on the subjec...

contextual Research: Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg

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contextual research: Children's Film in the Digital Age

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contextual research: Children clothing + mannerism in films

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Contextual Research: Films for children

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Contextual Research: Bedroom Inspirations

https://www.themarysue.com/the-15-awesomest-fictional-kids-rooms/ https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/garden/teenage-bedroom-as-battleground.html "T eenagers are on a long march toward autonomous adulthood, as  psychologists  like Dr. Marsha Levy-Warren, the author of “The Adolescent Journey,” point out. And mastering the clean room is a blip on their map." “Kids are so preoccupied during  adolescence  with who they want to be that they are inside themselves,” Dr. Levy-Warren said. “They lose sight of what’s outside. They don’t even see their rooms. There’s a lot for them to figure out.” “Most kids are quite chaotic internally, and rooms reflect the degree of chaos,” Dr. Levy-Warren said. So, are the clothes on the floor thoughtless or intentional? “Some kids’ messiness consists of every item of clothing being on the floor, and they’ll say, ‘That’s what I want and I know what I have,’ ” she said. “Other kids don’t even have an answer.” A CAVE OF ONE...

Contextual Research: “MR. MOM:” MICHAEL KEATON’S CAPE COD IN MICHIGAN

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contextual research: Indiana Jones

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Contextual Research: Children Films

Children (Kids) and Family-Oriented Films are non-offensive, wholesome, and entertaining films (usually rated G for 'suitable for general audiences') that do not include topics or scenes with violence, foul language and other profanity, religious issues, gratuitous sexuality and so on, and are specifically designed for children 12 and under (or for family viewing). Children's and family-oriented films may actually be suitable for all age groups, and cover a wide range of genre categories (comedy, adventure, fantasy, musicals, etc.). They often include a child actor/actress (such as Shirley Temple), and/or focus on children's-related themes that teach a lesson or moral, or show that good can triumph over evil. 

contextual research: Children Bedrooms in Films

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1. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) Set in WWII, this movie sees three siblings get evacuated to an apprentice witch’s house. Their adventure begins as they cast a spell on a bedknob, enabling their bed to fly! Best feature: that flying bed, of course! 2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) In this classic children’s film, ten-year-old Elliott lures a wayward alien (E.T.) to his bedroom and forges a friendship that has melted many hearts over the years. Best feature: a massive wardrobe, big enough to hide an alien in. 3. WarGames (1983) In another ‘80s classic, Matthew Broderick plays a young computer nerd who inadvertently connects to a top-secret military computer and manages to start a countdown to World War III - all from his bedroom. Best feature: controlling the world from the humble bedroom computer. 4. Big (1988) Who can forget Tom Hanks’ epic bedroom and apartment when he played a kid trapped in a grown up’s body and landed a job as a toy tester? Every child in the ‘80s wan...