As múltiplas imagens do cientista no cinema

Abstract

This article highlights the use of cinematographic language for the constitution of the scientist’s image in people’s imagination. It shows that in the first motion picture in 1902, Le Voyage dans la Lune – A Trip to the Moon, by the Frenchman Georges Méliès, distorted representations of scientists already appeared. Using motion picture samples, the author shows the diversity of roles that the scientist has played in cinema during one century. Researches that analyzed the extent of the influence that those motion pictures had on the audience’s understanding of science and how they helped to constitute the representations of scientists in the society are also presented.