Imagens da guerra: do horror à sedução

Abstract

The author shows how the wars, particularly the current ones, such as the war in Kosovo, are presented to the public by the means of communication. She analyzes the resources used to involve the spectator and to lead him to the "presentism" trap, an expression created by Hobsbawn to designate the process through which fragmented and repetitive images "formulate" explanations for the problems. Entering the educative space, she criticizes the way this process is worked in the class room, concluding that, instead of virtual participation as if the images of war were a videogame, it is necessary to identify subjects and intentions, and the understanding of the set of social and political relations in which we are inserted, being informed and formed also to interfere in and to form the world.