Women scientist in cinema: representation and forms of cinematic imaginary construction
Abstract
The woman is represented and the protagonist in cinematographic art since its inception. Cinematographic imaginary is constructed as global mental representations: they are globally mediated. Although there are many works on the representation of women in the broad spectrum of film analysis, certain female professions and ways of life have been of little interest. The article addresses an approach to the representation of female scientific characters from audiovisual analysis and with certain categories of actions and characters in mainstream films such as Agora (2009), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), Radioactive (2019) and Hidden Figures (2017).
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