Cinema, education and ethnography: thoughts and perspectives on children and young people

The educational philosophy associated with cinema usually has its speech guided across an advanced proposal to teach children and young people to think and admire classic films and cinema as art. It is quite naive, though, to believe that by presenting and technically analyzing the classics, the big names of world cinema, children and young people will fall in love with the "real" cinema, cinema as art. Showing them that these films are an art form, explaining the techniques used to create them and letting them anlyze and repeat the process of producing and directing a film is not enough. This process alone does not change the paradigms, much less makes children and young people passionate about cinema. This chapter develops around this core theme that also promotes discussion and analysis around the relationship between children and young people, cinema and education.