Continuity and Change
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Explain using examples how the films have helped you understand adolescence in terms of continuity and change. Use your experience, and the film studies of Yolngu Boy and Looking for Alibrandi to support your response.
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The two films viewed in class, as a part of a cross-cultural comparison, Yolngu Boy and Looking for Alibrandi, have assisted myself in understanding adolescence in terms of continuity and change. Adolescence is a generic term however when combining Yolngu Boy and Looking for Alibrandi with my own personal experience, the term becomes much more broad in terms of continuity and change. As seen in the two films studied, adolescence is highly dependent on the main socialising agents of family, peers, school, location and media. Socialising factors depend on the particular individual as well as the environment, encapsulating the individual’s personal and social identity. This is exceedingly evident in my personal experience and the films Yolngu Boy and Looking for Alibrandi.
As a result of critically studying Yolngu Boy and Looking for Alibrandi, the films have helped me understand adolescence in terms of continuity and change. The term continuity can be defined as the conservation of traditions in societies and cultures, essentially a balance to change. The film Yolngu Boy demonstrates how the continuity of customs, in particular societies and cultures affect, adolescents in regards to the development of personal and social identity. This has assisted my understanding of adolescence as it has given me the true insight of what it is like to grow up in such a conservative environment where traditional customs of a particular society and culture are continually practiced, in the midst of the media age. The film has also strongly helped my understanding because it demonstrates how the immediate environment of an individual can impact the development of adolescence, in the search...
Explain using examples how the films have helped you understand adolescence in terms of continuity and change. Use your experience, and the film studies of Yolngu Boy and Looking for Alibrandi to support your response.
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The two films viewed in class, as a part of a cross-cultural comparison, Yolngu Boy and Looking for Alibrandi, have assisted myself in understanding adolescence in terms of continuity and change. Adolescence is a generic term however when combining Yolngu Boy and Looking for Alibrandi with my own personal experience, the term becomes much more broad in terms of continuity and change. As seen in the two films studied, adolescence is highly dependent on the main socialising agents of family, peers, school, location and media. Socialising factors depend on the particular individual as well as the environment, encapsulating the individual’s personal and social identity. This is exceedingly evident in my personal experience and the films Yolngu Boy and Looking for Alibrandi.
As a result of critically studying Yolngu Boy and Looking for Alibrandi, the films have helped me understand adolescence in terms of continuity and change. The term continuity can be defined as the conservation of traditions in societies and cultures, essentially a balance to change. The film Yolngu Boy demonstrates how the continuity of customs, in particular societies and cultures affect, adolescents in regards to the development of personal and social identity. This has assisted my understanding of adolescence as it has given me the true insight of what it is like to grow up in such a conservative environment where traditional customs of a particular society and culture are continually practiced, in the midst of the media age. The film has also strongly helped my understanding because it demonstrates how the immediate environment of an individual can impact the development of adolescence, in the search...