Is Titanic more influence in education that family councils?
The film has a major influence in educating youth councils of parents or ethics classes at school, according says a study by the professor of Audiovisual Communication and Publicity of the University of Malaga, Alfonso Mendiz, which was submitted today as part of the Congress of the Family and Society being held until next Saturday at the International University of Catalonia (UIC).
Mendiz, who delivered the conference The influence of cinema in the family, explained that the film is "the most powerful learning experiences that we have" to the current "crisis in education and values" and "indifference or disorientation of older people. "
The professor pointed out that wherever the institutions that have sent tradicioalmente social attitudes and modes of behaviour "had been broken," the film takes on "greater importance as a source of ideas and patterns for life."
"The film is the one that says to young people how they should behave and act, what should be family relationships and dating, what happiness and personal failure", he stressed.
The influence of 'Titanic'
In this sense, he as an example the film 'Titanic' - seen in the cinema by 10.8 million viewers in Spain-which, in his view, "has influenced the consideration of courtship, engagement and relationships rather than prematrioniales All the explanations in the classroom on these matters. "
Alfonso Mendiz also referred in his speech at legitimating role of cinema in this regard and said that the seventh art "has legitimized behaviors and perceptions of reality that years ago caused the discrepancy or rejection of the majority population ", among which he cited homosexuality, cohabitation during courtship or euthanasia.
Along the same lines, highlighted the ability of movies to change the attitude of people towards specific products and traditional patterns of consumption. Thus, recalled how the shirt ceased to be a garment inside and went on to become a staple dress to replace the shirt following the dress of Marlon Brando in "A Streetcar Named Desire '(1951). Given this ability to influence film, the investigator asked the filmmakers "responsibility" when designing their films and advocated that governments "encourage those productions enhancing social and family life. "
The Interncional Congress on Family and Society that brings together five hundred people in the UIC, ending next Saturday after the participation of some 50 experts from various countries. During the congress, panellists will answer questions such as How is the family today? Does it have good health, "What are its strengths and weaknesses," Are the policies of existing family support? Between many others.
