Olika perspektiv på historia : - En komparativ studie av spelfilm och läroböcker

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether feature films offer alternative perspectives on history compared to textbooks in the subject of history for upper secondary school. This aims to create a deeper understanding of feature film as educational material. The essay will based on a comparative method aim to identify similarities and differences in feature films and textbooks presentation of history. Central historical themes reflected in the feature films Hidden Figures and Sameblod provide the basis for analyzing of the same historical themes in two history textbooks. The results are analyzed using history didactic theory in order to identify which historical perspective that emerges. The results of this study clearly show that feature films offer alternative perspectives on history than is evident in history textbooks. The story presented in feature films portrays people´s experience of oppression and discrimination in the past. The central historical themes reflected in the feature films Hidden Figures and Sameblod were presented extremely little in the textbooks. Instead, the textbook presents overall structural perspective in which political, economic and social change processes and its consequences for society's population emerges. In conclusion, this shows how feature films and textbooks offer various ways for people to encounter and understand historical events and processes of change in the past