Imagination, Power and Science: Considerations About the Movie Extraterrestrial Contact

Authors

  • Carlos Roberto Winckler Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.1999.10.3041

Keywords:

Communication, movie theater, fiction

Abstract

Extraterrestrial contact is a good example of what intelligent life is possible on planet Hollywood. It would have everything to be just another film-show so to the taste, in this decade, of the contemporary audiences mobilized by the action and technological pyrotechnics and that suppose to be the humanity a mere composite of nerve sensations.However, the good script, based on homonymous work Of Carl Sagan, allows a complex and nuanced reading of different - not necessarily exclusive - answers given to the possible forms of knowledge of reality, examines the tense relations between political-institutional commitments and the search for truth and, above all, Poetics forgotten in these times of legitimation by efficacy.

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Author Biography

Carlos Roberto Winckler, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutorando em Sociologia na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Professor da Faculdade de Comunicação Social da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

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Published

2008-04-10

How to Cite

Winckler, C. R. (2008). Imagination, Power and Science: Considerations About the Movie Extraterrestrial Contact. Revista FAMECOS, 6(10), 171–175. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.1999.10.3041

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 10 (1999)

Section

Criticism

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