Rites of Passage: Jewish Representations of Children and Childhood in Contemporary Cinema

2021 ◽  
pp. 170-187
Author(s):  
Nathan Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
Bat Mitzvah ◽  
Contemporary Cinema

Despite the great importance Judaism places on children, childhood is a curiously overlooked topic in Jewish film and television studies. This chapter proposes to begin filling the gap by exploring how the universal theme of childhood has been represented in more specific ways, focusing on Jewish cinema specifically. By exploring a series of representations of children and childhood (sometimes Jewish, sometimes not) up to and including the age of 13, it examines films dealing with the child en route to adulthood through the key rite of passage of bar/bat mitzvah; the child as vulnerable and in need of protection, but whose childhood is brutally cut short during the Holocaust; and films in which childhood is not explicitly Jewish but can be read thus. Such representations consider the condition of children and childhood as a comment on the Jewish condition in contemporary society.

America on Stage: the World in the Classroom

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (41) ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
American University ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Third ◽  
Group Presentations ◽  
The World ◽  
Similarities And Differences

In this, the third paper originally presented at the ATHE conference in Atlanta in 1992, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Assistant Professor of Theatre in the American University, Washington, DC, discusses the problems and rewards of introducing American theatre, film, and television studies to a class of sixty students from a wide variety of nations and social backgrounds. Outlining the ideas and intentions behind a wide-ranging syllabus, she quotes from group presentations and individual responses to illustrate how works deeply rooted in American culture and assumptions can stimulate the recognition and discussion of social and cultural similarities and differences among responsive students.

scholarly journals African Indigenous Guidance and Counselling & Child Socialization Agents

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Nancy Muriithi ◽  
Josephine W. Gitome ◽  
Humphrey M. Waweru
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Child Socialization ◽  
Socialization Agents ◽  
Indigenous Society

The aim of this article is to evaluate the perception of Pentecostal Christians in regard to the importance of the indigenous guidance and counselling among the Aembu indigenous society. In the latter, they socialized their children from birth to puberty. In a nutshell, emphasis is given to transitional rites of passage. Transitional rites of passage served as important tools of child socialization which was meant to instil moral values among the Aembu youths. In our contemporary society, many adolescents face moral issues which often call for intensive child socialization from home and church circles. In its theoretical framework, the article used the structural functional theory. Qualitative approach was applied as the determinant design. The article reveals that there are moral issues among the youth and that there are useful Aembu teachings and practices which were used in the Aembu indigenous society as socialization tools in order to instil moral values among youths to solve morality issues. The article concludes that there is an urgent need to put in place alternative rites of passage with the sole aim of coming up with effective child socialization programs.

‘Picture It If Yous Will’: Theatre and Theatregoing in Rural Scotland

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Hamilton ◽  
Adrienne Scullion
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University

In the following article, Christine Hamilton and Adrienne Scullion review the system of theatre provision and production that exists in the rural areas of Scotland, most especially in the Highlands and Islands, assessing the policy framework that exists in the nation as a whole and in the Highlands and Islands in particular. They highlight the role and responsibilities of volunteers within the distribution of professional theatre in Scotland, challenge the response of locally based theatre-makers and nationally responsible agencies to represent rural Scotland, and raise issues fundamental to the provision of culture nationally. In doing so, they question what we expect theatre policy to deliver in rural areas, and what we expect rural agents to contribute to theatre provision and policy. Finally, they suggest that, in the system of rural arts in Scotland, there are wider lessons for the development of arts in and the arts of other sparsely populated and fragile communities. Christine Hamilton is the director and Adrienne Scullion the academic director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow, where Adrienne teaches in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies.

The Modern Boy’s Rite of Passage and the Lacking Component of Transcendental Death Acknowledgement

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-233
Author(s):  
Elias Hage
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Memento Mori ◽  
Insight Into

This article explores the historical tendencies of male rites of passage and the modern expression of rite of passage as lacking the central component of transcendental death acknowledgement (Memento Mori) as seen for years past in various cultures. This article examines the necessity of developing an attunement toward objective transcendentalism among youth upon which an understanding of death may be appropriately developed. Without such a foundation, Memento Mori formulates hopelessness and fear within the boy, stunting his rite of passage into manhood. After offering cultural examples of death acknowledgement, we shall enter an analysis of Memento Mori on today’s cultural relativistic subjectivism to underscore the importance of objective transcendentalism before the incorporation of death acknowledgement within the rite of passage of the boy. This article concludes by offering insight into modern incorporation of Memento Mori within local communities.

Adaptation, Action, Response: ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (31) ◽  
pp. 203-220
Author(s):  
Ian Craven
Keyword(s):  
Television Studies ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Four Horsemen ◽  
Adaptation Action ◽  
The University

Several of the novels of the Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibanez (1867–1928) have provided the basis for theatrical adaptations: but the version of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916) by Peter Granger-Taylor, staged in March 1990 at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, was the first for sixty years. In the following feature, Ian Craven, who teaches in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, provides a full account of Jon Pope's production, considering questions of adaptation, performance, and response, and also paying special attention to the influence of the screen versions of 1921 and 1962. His analysis is complemented by extracts from an interview with the adapter and director. A study by Margaret Eddershaw of Philip Prowse's production of Brecht's Mother Courage, in which Glenda Jackson took the title role during the same season at the Citizens, appeared in NTQ28 (November 1991).

scholarly journals Rite of Passage and Psychotherapy

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-108
Author(s):  
E.G. Grebenyuk
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Movement Therapy ◽  
Analytical Psychology ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Transcultural Psychotherapy

Anthropological notion of the rite of passage and its stages are viewed. Different psychotherapeutic approaches (psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, trauma, transpersonal and transcultural psychotherapy, dance movement therapy, narrative approach and community work), which address to the structure and symbolic meaning of the rites of passage, are compared. Systematization of client requests and corresponding psychotherapeutic objectives based on the rite of passage as a metaphor of life changes is proposed. Opportunities of using metaphor in modern society are analyzed.

Adorno, Auschwitz, and the New Categorical Imperative

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 298-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Ostrove
Keyword(s):  
Categorical Imperative ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Revolutionary Praxis ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Means Of Production

Abstract Theodor Adorno (2001) once claimed, “Hitler has imposed a new categorical imperative upon humanity in the state of their unfreedom: to arrange their thinking and conduct, so that Auschwitz never repeats itself, so that nothing similar ever happen again” (p. 358). In this article I analyze exactly what Adorno meant by this statement, and how he believes humanity should act in order to arrange their thinking, conduct, and communication so that nothing similar to the Holocaust can ever happen again. I will also explore Adorno’s thoughts on why the Holocaust was able to occur, how contemporary society should respond to such a catastrophe, and why he felt the creation of the modern state of Israel was not an appropriate response to the Holocaust. Adorno felt that the only true form of revolutionary praxis was to change the dominant means of production and any lesser form of rebellion was futile and only reified the contemporary commodity-form capitalist system.

New Women in the New Drama

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (21) ◽  
pp. 31-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
New Women ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
New Drama ◽  
The University ◽  
Women Dramatists

While considerable attention has been paid in recent years to the work of women dramatists during the wave of proto-feminist activity in the early years of the present century, the way in which women characters – whether created by male or female writers – were presented has been less adequately investigated. Here, Jan McDonald, Head of the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies in the University of Glasgow, explores the work of well-known and largely-forgotten playwrights alike, discussing the ways in which the ‘new drama’ – the subject of Jan McDonald's recent book for the ‘Macmillan Modern Dramatists’ series – reflected the concerns of the ‘new woman’.

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