Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In the context of the 5th Panhellenic Conference on "Educational play and art in education and culture", from the thematic section "Educational cultural programmes", I was given the opportunity to deal with the topic "Education through cinema: "Hits on the Desk" in terms of educational events. In the development of the film, I used the following themes: teaching and education, educational system, educational administration, evaluation, equipment, curriculum, behaviour-discipline, socio-political environment, family environment, profession and staff (the duration of each educational phenomenon). The film is set in the early 1960s and stars: A. Vougiouklaki, D. Papamichael, D. Konstantinaras, D. Papagiannopoulos, G. D. The music is by M. Hadjidakis and the script-direction: A. Sakellariou. Set in a wealthy area of Athens, Filothei, the film presents the carefree life, attitudes and reactions of the schoolgirls in a realistic mood. This era is a transitional period before the reform of G. Papandreou - E. Papanoutsou, where a period of intense political conflict with an impact on education begins. This period hides an "innocence" and carefreeness in student life. The film "Knocking at the Desk" is a continuation of the film "The Wood came out of Paradise" of the 1950s, where there are, we could say, small changes in the school process. At the same time, there is an improvement in certain aspects of educational reality. The film "Knocking on the Desk" is an emotional film that has also been shot in Turkish, has sold 591,675 tickets in Greece and was the second most popular film among the cinema audience in the period '63-'64. Article visualizations:
Author: Eugenia Bazani
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412396253