Cinema and youth: a discussion about image and ethics

Abstract

This paper discusses recent research with young students in Pedagogy, about his relationship with narratives of TV, Internet and especially the cinema. We discuss the concept of image, emphasizing the viewer’s gaze perspective, looking at the games that take place in the space of culture, and also the discourses that circulate as a particular kind of mediation in a particular social formation. Based on Foucault, Didi-Huberman, Badiou and Ismail Xavier, among others, we emphasize the “absent presence” of images, because images are not presented to us as transparency (on the contrary, they always carry a lot of opacity). We understand that this discussion has important consequences, in terms of ethical and aesthetic education, for children, young people and especially
teachers.