Media Representation of Intergenerational Relationships. A study of parent-child dynamics.
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| Format: | Students’ Scientific Association paper |
| Kulcsszavak: | gender and identity generational communication media representation Mother–daughter relationships qualitative analysis |
| Online Access: | http://dolgozattar.uni-bge.hu/60522 |
| Abstract: | This research investigates how more recent film and television represent mother-daughter relationships and how young female audiences interpret these representations in relation to their own family communication and generational identity. The topic is modern, as streaming media increasingly present families and women's roles in new and culturally hybrid ways.Five texts were selected for research:Turning Red(2022), Ginny&Georgia (2021-present), Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022), The Fabelmans(2022), and Encanto(2021). The texts all represent parent-child relationships, but the focus is on the mother-daughter relationships as a site of intergenerational tension, identification, and negotiation. Qualitative research will take place in this research with an integration of text analysis and semi-structured interviews of young woman who are well familiar with the selected works.The theoretical model integrates Encoding/Decoding Theory (Hall, 1980), Cultivation Theory (Gerbner, 1976), and Family Communication Patterns Theory (Koerner & Fitzpatrick, 2002). These theories permit the examination of how media encode cultural meaning around motherhood and how audiences decode it through personal and cultural experience.Early studies indicate that modern representations break away from known hierarchies, setting daughters and mothers as co-narrators of one another's emotional growth. Readers recognize these narratives as a reflections of their own generation's challenges in managing autonomy and belonging and reframing femininity in multiple contexts. The studies contribute to communication and media studies by showing how audiovisual narrative represents and creates new trends of intergenerational perception and interaction. |
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