Ciência e cinema: um encontro didático pedagógico em Anjos e Demônios e O Nome da Rosa

Abstract

The Cinema as a way of represent and perceive the world and the man, besides important artistic language, became determining factor for mass communication of the twentieth century. As such, it started appropriate of the different areas of knowledge, in order to create scripts and narratives that approximate the cinematographic artistic poetics of the everyday phenomena of the nature and human existence, approaching the Cinematographic Art of a supposed reality. This relation allows the creation of movies that, besides of pure and simple entertaning, make it possible to use them in different forms of learning. From this perspective, this research had as a main purpose, develop and submit a proposal in wich the entertainment Cinema be an instrument of teaching Physics and the History of Science. For this purpose, the movies Angels and Demons (2009) and The Name of the Rose (1986), entertainment movies, audience hits that present among their main themes the History of Science and the relations between Science and Religion. Each one of the movies works narratives that involve the Scientific Knowledge. This research proposes that the Cinema be understood in the classroom as an artistic language, with their specificities and not as a simple complementary form to a theme or a content. Our proposal focuses on film analysis that present the cinematographic work as a Science learning tool, in particular, the History of Science. So, methodologically, the research occurred from two main axes: the film analysis from the presented theory by Erwin Panofsky in his book Meaning in the Visual Arts (2007), denominated Panofsky method, iconological or social history and the historiographic study in the History of Science, presented by the professor Ubiratan D’Ambrósio (2004). The research contributes, in a inedited way, so that the Cinema or movies made to the Cinema can be understood as an artistic language that make it possible to the subjects involved in the process of Teaching and Learning to use the resources of language as pedagogical and didactic instrument for the classes of Physics or Sciences.