Modes of engagement: children's differing understandings of, and aesthetic involvement with, musicalized characters
Welcome to the weekly IMS seminar!
This week PhD student Signe Kjaer Jensen will be presenting a paper on "Modes of engagement: children's differing understandings of, and aesthetic involvement with, musicalized characters".
The paper is a discussion of her preliminary analysis of data from her PhD project on music and characters in children's animated feature films. The data has been collected through observations and interviews with groups of children aged 7-11, in connection with them watching Frozen, Shrek the Third, and Up. The preliminary analysis suggests that children are active and critical viewers, and that they are highly selective in which characters they choose to engage with, leading to different ways of engaging with animated characters ranging from a focus on aesthetic features to a deeper interest in the characters as psychological beings. This difference seems to be associated with predetermined interests and moral values.
The seminar is, as always, Wednesday at 10.00 – 12.00 (CET)
in Dacke (F3016V). The seminar is open for distance participants, contact us at ims@lnu.se, if you want to participate via an online platform.