The Sociocultural Context and the Main Developing Stages of Family Education in Russian Feature Films

Family issues have always been an important topic in Russian feature films.Films about family and family education, challenges of parent-child relationships are essential for media education of the younger generation.The educational potential of feature films is that they position family values and foundations, help build models of intra-family interaction, teach respect for the older generation, help strengthen intergenerational ties and preserve the best traditional values.This article presents the sociocultural context of the image of family and family education based on Russian feature films.The author carried out an interdisciplinary analysis of the main approaches, concepts and family models presented in pedagogical, psychological, cultural, and sociological studies.The main research methods are theoretical analysis and synthesis; generalization and classification, content analysis, abstraction and specification, and generalization.Using these methods, the study identifies the main transformation processes and changes characteristic of the presentation of family issues in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, associated with the key priorities of state family policy, ideology, pedagogical views and psychological ideas.Based on the analysis, the main stages of transformational processes of reflecting images of family and family education in Russian feature cinema are identified from the point of view of the main conceptual approaches, directions, goals, and objectives of media education.