The government of childhood in the film Sciuscià

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22484/2177-5788.2023v49id5244

Keywords:

government; childhood; cinema.

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the child control process and its objective and subjective constitution through the analysis of the discourses about childhood and the government practices of its conduct in the film Sciuscià by Vittorio De Sica 1946, which portrays the conditions of Italian society after the Second World War. Indeed, to highlight the strategies of control and subjection of poor childhood in this conjuncture as a way of producing a certain type of subjectivity. Point out the elements that constitute analysis data (socio-historical, characters, images, cinematographic language, etc.) of the investigation, revealing the conceptions of childhood. The film analysis method of Vanoye and Golliot-Lété (2002) and as a source: bibliographic studies, the film Sciuscià and the filmic review of the work of Vittorio De Sica, linked to the neorealist cultural and aesthetic movement. The neglect of the role of the State is evidenced and made explicit through the policy of subjection in reformatories, with their “pedagogical” technologies of childhood government supported by official discourses that conceive childhood as a social risk and victims of their own condition of victims.

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Isabella Fernandes, Universidade Estadual de Goiás

 

 

Veralúcia Pinheiro, Universidade Estadual de Goiás

PhD in Education from Unicamp, post-doctorate in Education from the Federal University of Uberlândia, professor and researcher at the State University of Goiás, Socio-Economic and Human Sciences Unit of Anápolis. She currently works in the Pedagogy, History, Letters and Interdisciplinary Master's in Education, Language and Technologies courses - PPG/IELT, develops research on the following topics: violence, education, youth and gender.

 http://lattes.cnpq.br/8080898661942973

Published

2023-12-19

How to Cite

FERNANDES, Isabella; PINHEIRO, Veralúcia. The government of childhood in the film Sciuscià. Revista de Estudos Universitários - REU, Sorocaba, SP, v. 49, p. e023017, 2023. DOI: 10.22484/2177-5788.2023v49id5244. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uniso.br/reu/article/view/5244. Acesso em: 23 dec. 2024.

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