Mitchell, Grethe;
(2024)
Representing Children’s Play in Documentary Film.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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This thesis considers the representation of children’s play in documentary film, adopting a creative practice methodology. Using a practice/exegesis model and placing equal importance on both the written and visual outputs of my research, this thesis should be considered alongside my 40-minute documentary film ipidipidation my generation! which records the playground cultures of two English primary schools between 2009-2011. My thesis examines and contextualises media representations of children, using these to identify and explore the discourses around children, childhood and play. In doing this, it examines how these media representations are positioned within these discourses – both shaping and shaped by these wider debates. It notes how the child adopts a “muted” position in these debates, which claim to value children but exclude children’s voices. As I situate my film practice within documentary and ethnographic film, the wider debates within these fields are also mapped out and considered, before considering a sample of documentary and ethnographic films featuring children’s play and conducting a comparative analysis. This analysis will explore the extent to which the films acknowledge and engage (whether consciously or not) with the discourses about childhood and how this is expressed through their film language and other means. I draw upon this material in Chapter Four where I analyse my own film using a multimodality approach, but also placing it within the context of ethnographic and documentary film practice.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Representing Children’s Play in Documentary Film |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2024. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188076 |
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