American and British student activism and its image in the movies
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15503/onis2018.579.590Keywords:
student activism, college movies, debating clubs, sport, student political activity, student newspapersAbstract
Thesis: The paper presents the genesis and a brief outline of the history of student activism development in America and the United Kingdom, as well as its image in college movies, which appeared in the twentieth century, mainly in America.
Discussed concepts: Issues regarding the participation in student corporations, sports clubs and other extra-curricular activities were reflected in the movies belonging to the aforementioned genre.
Results and conclusions: In the college movies fraternities and sport activities are mainly reflected. However, the publication of newspapers and magazines on campuses, from the 1930s and 1950s the participation in music and theatre clubs, student self-government and involvement in political activities are usually peripheral to the main story. The presented image is therefore incomplete and stereotypical, what has a significant impact on the perception of Anglo-Saxon academic reality by communities around the world.
Originality / cognitive value of the approach: An overview of the available literature related to the subject matter allows to conclude that the research, which have been made so far, has not collectively analysed the examples from the American and British movies and not compared them with the real images. Those issues are the subject matter of broader research on the image of the academic community and the university as an institution based on selected British and American the academic/campus novels as well as college movies, mostly belonging to American ones, and searching for traces of academic novels in Polish literature and movies.
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