Samtiden reflekterad i historiska filmer

Sammanfattning: In this essay I have studied how the film industry in the USA has worked with history in movies ever since the birth of film. I have also studied if Swedish teenagers are influenced by the contemporary reflections often showed in these movies. Furthermore I discussed how to work with contemporary reflections on film in a classroom. In these studies I used a group of teenager in the eight-grade. I stated of by asking the teenagers a verity of questions about movies and their interests in movies. Afterwards I showed them four different scenes from two different movies which all included reflections to today’s society. After the scenes the teenagers answered open questions about the scenes. The answer that I got was that the teenagers don’t see the reflection in a broad context but seems to see reflections that are more close to the, for example school. I those cases where they could reflect to something contemporary it was very often something completely different to what I reflected in the movie. I discuss that use of Contemporary reflections in historical films can be used in classrooms because it can give the students a way to work with and understand sources.