Analysis of Russian Comedy Feature Films about Family and Family Education in a Student Audience

The article presents methodological and practical approaches to studying Soviet and post-Soviet feature films of the comedy genre about family and family education.Watching Soviet and Russian films, the audience has an opportunity to become familiar with the system of values, traditions, and models of family education presented in audiovisual media texts of different years.Developing value attitudes about family traditions and family education in the younger generation based on Russian feature films about family is a pressing issue in the present-day socio-cultural situation.The author presents individual forms and methods of media studies in a student audience, which can be a basis for further successful application in media education focused on feature films about family and family education; development of technologies and methods for integrating media education on this issue into university courses or subjects related to the fields of education, psychology, and sociocultural studies.Media education based on feature films of the comedy genre addressing family issues from the Soviet and post-Soviet periods includes autobiographical, structural, critical, semiotic, identification analysis, cultural mythology analysis, key character analysis, and others.Film studies addressing family issues in a student audience, do not only solve the main goals of media education, but also reveal potential opportunities for using feature films in building university students' future professional trajectory for educating the younger generation, forming their value ideas about family and family relationships.